Microsoft office 2010 excel and outlook

[moshezhang]

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....

 

[Johnathan Lyman]

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.

 

[pacinitaly]

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 !!!

 

[Johnathan Lyman]

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.