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Microsoft Excel is waiting for another application to complete an OLE action
teribryantGo to the Office app in question (Excel, Outlook, etc), then go to File-->Options-->Add-Ins (left hand column near bottom)
IF the Azure Information Protection plug-In is there, it will be listed under Active Application Add-Ins at the top of the box. look down to the bottom of the open window where it says "Manage", and change that to "Comm Add-Ins", and press "Go". In the window that pops up, uncheck the Azure Information Protection plug in, and press "okay".
That worked for me when troubleshooting a client's Excel. But there are several things that cause this problem, so I just wanted to get the FYI out.
This is what I found in Add-ins and it didn't have anything checked except the Acrobat PDFMaker or the tool you were talking about.
- Ah, then this fix doesn't apply to you. I'm sorry, but best of luck in figuring it out.
- Thank you so much for your help, I really appreciate it!
The main problem is not solved.
None of the solutions proposed here are permanently solving the problem.
Also, I suspect that also the causes mentioned here are not the relevant ones since I'm getting this error also from different unexplained setups.
I have a MS 365 Business license; I pay a lot of money for their Excel and surprising a very annoying and time consuming problem is not solved for such a long time.
Very disappointing ...
