Office 2013 Slow in Opening File

[ptmuldoon]

Hello and first post here as I seek some help in trying to speed up a file opening.

Over the past several months I have been updating our office Excel and Word "template". And we currently used Office 2007, so the entire rewrite has been done in 2007. However we are moving to Office 2013 in about 2 months Company wide, thus I'm working to ensure things work correctly in the new version.

The MSWord Report contains about 65 links to charts in Excel. I have disabled Update automatic links on open in both Word 2007 and Word 2013.



In Office 2007, the file opens almost instant. But in 2013, the file takes over a minute to open in showing an XX% as it slowly loads.

Would anyone have any suggestion on trying to figure out why it may be taking so long? I may try and relink everything with a new 2013 file to check for compatibility issues, but I Not sure if that will help or not.