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Microsoft Excel is waiting for another application to complete an OLE action
Hi there, Whenever I copy paste special in excel, my excel file freezes and after a waiting for a few seconds to few minutes, depending on the amount of data being copy pasted, I get this error '...
Worked for me too. I didn't connect this problem with the McAfee update. THANK YOU!!!
Unfortunately, this doesn't work for me because our district technology department is in full control of our virus protection program and it is not McAfee. Thank you!
teribryant, I was having the same issue. I found that when I copied the files from a streaming folder to my PC it stopped and everything works as expected. I used google drive and I think that was the issue. Pausing the streaming didn't solve the problem but moving the file to a non-shared (i.e. not streaming) folder worked.
Best wishes- I appreciate your response. My case was probably caused by the McAfee's Real Time Virus scan. Turning it off resoved my issue. Someone else pointed that out some time back.
ZenithWoman That makes sense! I'll try that.
It does not always work.
You'll see that you'll receive the error at a moment in time.
