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Vidish
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Jan 13, 2021

Excel waiting for another application to complete an OLE action - no addons/links/network drives

Hi all, Been stuck with this one for a while now - I'm trying to run a vba macro which hooks into a running instance of another program and extracts some data out of it. Unfortunately it keeps throw...
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MuhammadMohsin
Copper Contributor
Jun 03, 2021
This solution can fix the problem temporarily but not for a long run.
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NikolinoDE
Platinum Contributor
Jun 03, 2021

MuhammadMohsin 

The only thing I can give you with my little knowledge on the way is ..

Use other ways to attach an Excel workbook

The error occurs when attempting to use Excel's “Send by E-mail” option.

So here it is recommended to try other ways to attach the Excel workbook.

Try sending your Excel workbook by attaching it to an email as a file in Outlook or Hotmail or any other email app to resolve the issue.

Well, it is estimated that after following the above given solution, Excel waiting for OLE action error will be fixed. If not, use MS Excel automatic repair tool.*

 

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Thank you for your understanding and patience

 

 

Nikolino

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