I wondered if anyone can shed some light on why opening a Word document would take a few seconds from Excel? The code below quickly finds/opens a specific subfolder using InStr i.e. debug.print of the subfolder name is immediate, however opening the specific Word doc takes about 4 seconds. I tried testing a similar procedure in Word itself it opened the document almost immediately. I'm still learning VBA and I'm not sure what the reason would be other than its something to do with the last bit re strFile Any suggestions would be appreciated.I wondered if anyone can shed some light on why