ACCELERATE A SLOW-OPENING MASSIVE EXCEL FILE My work requires the use of several very large Excel files, and they take forever to open. In fact, they even take a long time to save and close. I’ve ...

This post will help you if you see a message in Excel, saying Retrieving data, Wait for a few seconds, then try cutting or copying again.

If Microsoft Excel is very slow to respond or stops working on your Windows computer, please read through this article for working fixes.

A start-up file accessed by Excel during spreadsheet loading can cause Excel to hang or slow down. To find out if this is the problem, open Excel in safe mode.