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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 it was the VPN... I mainly work from home, and the "OLE action" message stopped popping up as soon as I connected to my work VPN (which should have been automatically). I suppose Excel was trying to retrieve data from a resource I have access to only when I'm on a secure/trusted connection.