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Problem Note 18718: Microsoft Office Excel is waiting for another application to complete an OLE action
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If a SAS® Financial Management query submitted in Microsoft Excel takes more than one or two minutes to process, you will be prompted with the message
"Microsoft Office Excel is waiting for another application to
complete an OLE action".
This message might be displayed multiple times, depending on the amount of time required for the query to complete.
Select the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Financial Management | Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 4.1 | 4.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 4.1 | 4.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 4.2 | 4.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 4.2 | 4.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 4.2 | 4.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 4.1 | 4.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 4.1 | 4.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 4.2 | 4.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||