Microsoft office 2010 excel and outlook


  1. Posts : 1
    Windows 7 64 bit
       #1

    Microsoft office 2010 excel and outlook


    When I open excel, and go to the file tab, it hangs, and says it is trying to contact server1......which likely is my head office server, and I can't access that server...It also tries to access the server when I want to insert a picture...how do I stop these programs from trying to access the server. I am in another country and will be for quite a while this is a large Pain....
    I have changed the library folders to be resident on my computer and I have also changed the default save location to be resident...
    Can anyone help?

    I am on Windows 7, on a Dell laptop....
    Last edited by moshezhang; 15 Dec 2010 at 03:07.
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  2. Posts : 966
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
       #2

    moshezhang said:
    When I open excel, and go to the file tab, it hangs, and says it is trying to contact server1......which likely is my head office server, and I can't access that server...It also tries to access the server when I want to insert a picture...how do I stop these programs from trying to access the server. I am in another country and will be for quite a while this is a large Pain....
    I have changed the library folders to be resident on my computer and I have also changed the default save location to be resident...
    Can anyone help?

    I am on Windows 7, on a Dell laptop....
    Are these files you are working on local to your machine or are they over some sort of network? If they are network files, it may be timing out trying to create temp/caches of the file you are working on as undo procedures. If it's a network file save a copy of it to somewhere local on your computer and try editing it.
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  3. Posts : 1,113
    windows 7 professional & ultimate 64bit laptops
       #3

    jelyman said:
    moshezhang said:
    When I open excel, and go to the file tab, it hangs, and says it is trying to contact server1......which likely is my head office server, and I can't access that server...It also tries to access the server when I want to insert a picture...how do I stop these programs from trying to access the server. I am in another country and will be for quite a while this is a large Pain....
    I have changed the library folders to be resident on my computer and I have also changed the default save location to be resident...
    Can anyone help?

    I am on Windows 7, on a Dell laptop....
    Are these files you are working on local to your machine or are they over some sort of network? If they are network files, it may be timing out trying to create temp/caches of the file you are working on as undo procedures. If it's a network file save a copy of it to somewhere local on your computer and try editing it.
    excelent advice !!!
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  4. Posts : 966
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
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    pacinitaly said:
    jelyman said:
    moshezhang said:
    When I open excel, and go to the file tab, it hangs, and says it is trying to contact server1......which likely is my head office server, and I can't access that server...It also tries to access the server when I want to insert a picture...how do I stop these programs from trying to access the server. I am in another country and will be for quite a while this is a large Pain....
    I have changed the library folders to be resident on my computer and I have also changed the default save location to be resident...
    Can anyone help?

    I am on Windows 7, on a Dell laptop....
    Are these files you are working on local to your machine or are they over some sort of network? If they are network files, it may be timing out trying to create temp/caches of the file you are working on as undo procedures. If it's a network file save a copy of it to somewhere local on your computer and try editing it.
    excelent advice !!!
    I've worked with MS Office files over SharePoint servers and found that if the SP server was under heavy load or over-loaded, it was taking too long to respond for Word or Excel's satisfaction so it'd time out.
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