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Copper Contributor

May 14, 2020

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 '...

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Arietis24

Copper Contributor

Mar 03, 2023

I am having the same problem. I save my file on a shard drive for work. This problem comes up every couple of months and I have to copy all of my data to a new spreadsheet. I can't copy the entire row, I have to only select the data. I've also noticed that the file size goes from about 200kb to 80000kb. None of my coworkers have this issue. We can't control any of our add-in or anti-virus settings. nileshparekh

conchcrawl

Copper Contributor

Jul 07, 2023

Arietis24 I am currently having the same problem - the excel file is located on a remote MS 2019 Server and this just started a few days ago and now another user is being affected with just this one file. They have been sharing this same file for years. Did you solve your problem any help would be appreciated.

teribryant
Copper Contributor
Jul 12, 2023
Yea, I've never found a solution. Sorry I couldn't help you, it's very frustrating. conchcrawl
Vimal670
Copper Contributor
Jul 10, 2023
conchcrawl

Still MS engineers are working on it. They are not able to fix their own issue, very strange.