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OLE Errors in Excel 2003 when using hyperlinks

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by vanzan1

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We sometimes have trouble with hyperlinks in Excel freezing up the PC and showing a message that Microsoft Office Excel is waiting for another application to complete an OLE action. We are not able to click on anything else so we must reboot the machine. Any suggestions?

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by larryd4

What links are in your spreadsheet and are they just Hyperlinks or actually imbedded files?

If they are embedded file links where are they?

by vanzan1

This is happening in a Computer Applications class. The students are adding hyperlinks to their spreadsheets for various sites - our own school site as well as different companies. There is no pattern - different sites and different computers have displayed the problem.

by larryd4

Perhaps its a common link to a specific site.

Here is my thinking..

Its a school so my guess is you network is behind a firewall. So your whole school is using one IP address to surf the web.

So when your students open their sheets, each sheet tries to pull down you embedded web page from the web site.

15 to 20 students or spreadsheets all hitting the same web site for the same information. And the web site your pulling from, only sees mulitple requests for the same page from the same IP address.

Hence the massiv delay or even failure to pull the data..

that may be causing the problem..

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