no links/VBA/addons, but : Microsoft excel waiting for another application to complete an ole action

Over 30 years of OLE and Microsoft was unable to make the Cancel button in that error dialog aborting the OLE action. Shall we proposed this for an entry in the guiness book of records?

We do always get new office versions, even sharepoint online with an excel with stripped down functionality that noone can use. But noone cares about annoying bugs that make you lose your work.

As you can guess on my frustration level I have 12 excel sheets open that I need to force close because of that bug. Two of them containing changed data that I can't save. I dared trying to open an excel embedded in word.