Recently, an end user that had a Dell, Windows 10 systemreported an issue with opening Excel and Word attachments within Outlook. I would take approximately 30 seconds for the document to open.  Adobe andother attachments would open quickly.  It was only Excel and Wordattachments taking a long time to open.  After trying serval things; I found that it was the Realtek High Definition Audio Driver that needed to beupdated.  

 


Dell’s Website, Driver update needed for the issue:

 

http://www.brucebnews.com/2017/07/a-possible-fix-for-the-excel-slow-file-opening-bug/