Excel Hanging When Opening workbook
Excel would start, but then freeze before opening the workbook completely. If Excel keeps hanging whenever you open any Excel workbook, it could be because one of the startup files being opened by Excel is corrupted.
To repair Excel, try running the following command:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Excel.exe /Automation
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Excel.exe /Safe
If the aboce gives an error use quote marks before the C: and after the .exe
Now try to open your workbook. If it opens, then you can assume that the problem is somewhere in the startup files. The problem could alos be with the worrkbook. If the workbook is very large and was created in an older versions of Excel, and you are opening it in Excel 2003 or newer, then there could be a long delay as the workbook is opened. This is because the newer versions of Excel rebuild the calculation tables associated with the workbook; rebuilding those can take some time to do for workbooks with lots of calculations. You could also remove blank rows.