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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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Hi,
You could try choosing File, Options, Advanced, and under General check Ignore other applications that use DDE.
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Worked well. Thank you! I had just had another Windows computer crash and had to have the hard drive cloned to save my data. So when this happened on my new laptop using windows 10, I thought "oh no here we go again" and hit the panic button. What a relief.
Again, thanks 1 million!
Yeashley1355