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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.
If this answer solves your problem, please check, Mark as Answered. If this answer helps, please click the Vote as Helpful button. Cheers Shane Devenshire
I can't believe that MS hasn't addressed this issue. For additional info, this issue also exists with Word and the solution you suggest (thank you) is not valid as the option to ignore DDE programs does not exist in Word. I tried it in Excel....no error but still slow shutdown.
FYI, all new installs on HP ProBook 4430s notebooks. Issue exists on all 8. Same install on HP 6200P PCs (3) and no issue with Word or Excel. Only difference is 32-bit OS on PCs and 64-bit on notebooks.
@ Shane Devenshire - The problem I find with this solution is - We cannot drill through Excel to open a file, we have to go to the location of an Excel File to open it.
I have a few people our group that have the very same issue. We have been using Office 2007 for a while and upgraded to Office 2010. Office 2007 worked fine. Now we are trying to make new templates for the upcoming year but keep getting that same error and then the system lockes up. What really stinks is that we are in a Citrix enviornment so when their system locks up I have to kick them out which kills their open session and any open files. Nobody like that trust me. Anyway has anyone figured out a solution other than rolling back to office 2007?
I have tried everything you all said and still got the annoying message. Do somebody have another options? I need this to be fix soon, I used excel all the time.