Microsoft Excel is waiting for another application to complete an OLE action.

Anonymous
2010-07-07T05:03:49+00:00

I am testing Excel 2010 on a few Windows 7 pc.  2 of them somethings get the following error after saving a file.  Click ok and then it appears after 10 seconds. It just keep going on until I kill the excel process.  Please assist.

"Microsoft Excel is waiting for another application to complete an OLE action."

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Anonymous
2010-07-07T05:24:34+00:00

Hi,

You could try choosing File, Options, Advanced, and under General check Ignore other applications that use DDE.

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-03-05T20:51:30+00:00

    I am happy that resolved your issue - When some of our users received the error they had nothing open but Outlook and Excel, we even had them run the reports prior to open Outlook and still received the error message - Since I made the changes above we have not had this issue.

    Thank you

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-04-18T16:04:33+00:00

    One workaround is to suppress the excel application messaging.

    Add the following code to the workbook open event

    Application.DisplayAlerts = False

    This worked for me.

    Hope it helps.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-05-25T05:14:47+00:00

    I had the exact same issue when trying insert a pdf into excel.  This normally works but today as i was inserting the file, I received an adobe update request.

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-07-03T16:10:43+00:00

    Phil

    You legend.  This works!

    "I browsed through the list of processes to see if I could find anything that might be the bottleneck. I noticed two instances of acrord32.exe, which I guess had something to do with reading pdf files..( I did indeed have 4 pdf's open in the (free) adobe reader.)"

    Thanks

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