Microsoft Excel is waiting for another application to complete an OLE action [FIX]
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They logged this with Autodesk and finally gave us a solution. The file extension of this file, with a completely different name, is. I remember those two threads when I was troubleshooting last week. While saving the Excel file, you have lost the connection to the file.
Then when I checked it Excel had opened! I was getting this error Wed-Fri last week.
Microsoft Excel is waiting for another application to complete an OLE action [FIX] - When I get this error I hit Debug and F5 and everything works fine. I have found that saving after exiting out of each table helps a little but this message still appears.
System then become unresponsive, was unable to force quite any applications or even view task manager. Duplicated this issue twice now, seeing if there are known issues that may be causing this problem. Here is user system specs: - Surface Pro 4 - Office 2013 - Windows 10 Pro Thanks, - Joel Hi Joel, After trying these methods ,how about your problem now? About collection information, you can try to download and install , which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office programs. Regards, Emi Zhang TechNet Community Support Please mark the reply as an answer if you find it is helpful. If you have feedback for TechNet Support, contact. Ok, after installing and running the OffCAT tool appears the problem was we were missing some updates that came out July 6th, 2016. But the main offendor was an Adobe Acrobat PDFMaker plugin, conflicting with MS Excel. When you double-click an Excel workbook in Windows Explorer, a dynamic data exchange DDE message is sent to Excel. This message instructs Excel to open the workbook that you double-clicked. Therefore, the DDE message that is sent to Excel by Windows Explorer is ignored, and Excel does not open the workbook that you double-clicked. Please follow these steps to uncheck DDE option in Excel: Please go to File- Options- Advanced- Clear the Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange DDE check box, and then click OK. Please try this method first and let me know the result, I'm glad to help you. Regards, Emi Zhang TechNet Community Support Please mark the reply as an answer if you find it is helpful. If you have feedback for TechNet Support, contact. Hello Emi, Thanks for the reply. Ok, I just navigated to the settings menu and verified that the box is unchecked by default. Are there next steps we can try if it appears this setting may not have been causing the problem. I recall last year I ran into an unrelated Office application problem, and was able to collect some diagnostic information. Is there a method to doing something like this to determine the cause of the issue? Thanks, - Joel Hi Joel, After trying these methods ,how about your problem now? About collection information, you can try to download and install , which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office programs. Regards, Emi Zhang TechNet Community Support Please mark the reply as an answer if you find it is helpful. If you have feedback for TechNet Support, contact. Once Excel 2013 freezes, the rest of the system becomes unresponsive even after force quitting all running applications in the Task Manager. Reviewing the event logs from the computer management console, we're unable to see any related issues from the system side that might be contributing to the Excel problem. I will go ahead and install the OffCAT tool, I have used that in the past to troubleshoot a MS Word issue in Office 2010 on another system. I will follow up with our findings after that has been completed and the data reviewed. Thank you for your assistance. But the main offendor was an Adobe Acrobat PDFMaker plugin, conflicting with MS Excel.
Since the error may also occur because of Excel trying to interact with another application that is not responding, it is recommended to close Excel and all other applications. This could happen if they are running a report which is running a single query which takes a long time to complete i. Put a DoEvents in that otherwise VBA will hog your machine resources - and you never know what else might come to light. These events will be fired whenever the appropriate event in Word fires, so you can trap the WordApp. Column 'If autofilter is on, things are going to be screwy. Post Views: 698 Sometimes, we might need to manipulate a bunch of RTF or PDF files using Excel VBA. In fact, you can use any email application of your choice to get around the problem.
