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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 '...
For me, the problem was Google Drive. I use Google files synchronized to my local folders and open the spreadsheets from there. The problem is that Google Drive tries to sync with every little change, so a large file with a macro making many changes tries to sync constantly and hangs the spreadsheet with the above message. Moving the spreadsheet to a non-Google Drive folder solved the problem instantly.