slow open

I have a very large file that takes a long time to open for one reason, every time it attempts to open, the bottom toolbar (that displays progress in opening the file) shows "Linking:...". That file is not in any way relevant to the file I am attempting to open. For example, if I have a file...

I have an 80 MB excel file that only takes about 15 seconds to save, but takes almost 10 minutes to close. It takes bout 3-4 minutes to open. Any idea why it closes so slowly? What can I do to speed it up?

I have got everything in place, it all works albeit sometimes slowly, I know I have inefficiencies in the VBA, but would this slow down the length of time it takes to open the file, or am I just impatient ? as for timing it takes about 15 seconds, I have several pieces of code across 4 modules...

I have a XLSM file that I made that take around 45 seconds to 1 min to open and I am not sure why or how I could speed things up. The file is 6 MB, uses 4 different custom user forms running some code, and has 12 tabs that have two columns of array formulas each down to row 5000. I figured...

I have a large Excel file that I believe was originally created in Lotus 123. The file has been converted over the past 10+ years to each new version of Excel etc. It's been actually "Converted" using the menus in Excel and has been "saved as" xlsm and xlsb. I think creating a fresh file that...