Glad I found this thread...I just checked updates and opted to install. Got the blue "Restarting..." screen and animated / rotating icon about it...and it sat there. No joy after 15 mins. I held the...

After suffering with the "excel files slow to open on double-click" problem in Win 10 since the OS version was released, it appears that MS finally fixed it.

This was definitely a problem with...

Frustrating situation. Your recent experience makes me wonder if Microsoft has been dabbling with a fix, but hasn't gotten it working under all conditions -- but with no further information to go on,...

I think there must be another reason that you had this experience. Is it consistently repeatable?

I use Office 365 (small business account) and had experienced this problem with the Office 2013...

Same issue here since moving from Windows 8.1 to 10, also with Office 365. The issue with Excel is tied to DDE -- which appears to be the common factor here between Excel and Cortana. With Cortana...