VBA: Querying Access with Excel. Why so slow?

Question

I found this code online to query Access and input the data into excel (2003), but it is much slower than it should be:

Sub DataPull(SQLQuery, CellPaste)
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Answer 1

I don't know if it will help, but I am using VBA and ADO to connect to an Excel spreadsheet.

It was retrieving records lightning-fast (<5 seconds), but then all of a sudden it was awfully slow (15 seconds to retrieve one record). This is what lead me to your post.

I realized I accidentally had the Excel file open myself (I had been editing it).

Once I closed it, all was lightening fast again.