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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 '...
I had this same issue persistently when trying to open an Excel file from a fileshare. I was pasting a path like this into Windows Explorer:
\\<servername>\<foldername>\<filename>.xlsx
I created a shortcut on my desktop to this location and double-clicked it. The file opened OK without displaying the error first time.
Not sure if I got lucky, or whether it's a solution that may work for others too.