Ms Excel Is Waiting For Another Application To Complete An Ole Action. I have a user that was opening an Excel document today and received this error message System then become unresponsive, was unable to force quite any applications or even view task manager. Since the error may also occur because of Excel trying to interact with another application that is not responding, it is recommended to close Excel.
Select the Hot Fix tab in this note to access. Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) is a technology developed by Microsoft that allows Office applications to interact with other applications. For example, Excel tries to communicate with other application such as Word, and it generally issues a command to OLE.
We should start with understanding what OLE stands for.
Today I will talk about one such error in Excel.
An Object Linking & Embedding (OLE) action is essentially a mechanism designed to help various Office applications (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Sharepoint) to communicate with other applications in order to complete an operation successfully. This feature is really nice and I like to have it checked. If a SAS® Financial Management query submitted in Microsoft Excel takes more than one or two minutes to process, you will be prompted This message might be displayed multiple times, depending on the amount of time required for the query to complete.