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Try this and see if it helps:<br />
Excel -&gt; Tools -&gt; Options - &gt;General Tab -&gt; Check Ignore other applications. Then restart excel. And now UnCheck Ignore other applications <br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; see <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211494" rel="ugc">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211494</a><br />
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You can set Excel to 'ignore other applications', i.e. not listen to DDE-requests. And as Explorer uses those to tell Excel what file to open, Excel doesn't open any file, but just sits there. <br />
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Try this and see if it helps:
Excel -> Tools -> Options - >General Tab -> Check Ignore other applications. Then restart excel. And now UnCheck Ignore other applications
                see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211494 [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211494]

You can set Excel to 'ignore other applications', i.e. not listen to DDE-requests. And as Explorer uses those to tell Excel what file to open, Excel doesn't open any file, but just sits there.



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I have several users that when they use their Microsoft Excel 2010 (opening older Excel 2003 spreadsheets) &nbsp;the program will hang and have to be forced down. &nbsp;This is on 6 different machines.<br />
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Ususally this is right after printing a sheet.
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I have several users that when they use their Microsoft Excel 2010 (opening older Excel 2003 spreadsheets)  the program will hang and have to be forced down.  This is on 6 different machines.

Ususally this is right after printing a sheet.

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