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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 '...
My solution was disabling the McAfee real time protection. I turned off the Real Time protection in McAfee Live Safe before opening the excel file and the issue was resolved. AshaKantaSharma
New problem for me which only started yesterday. I have also finally managed to open my spreadsheets after turning off (temporarily) McAfee real time scanning. Thanks for the tip!