Excel 2007: "There was a problem sending the command to the program"
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Feb 2010
Excel 2007: "There was a problem sending the command to the program"
Tags: DDE, Excel, Excel 2007, Networking
497 comment(s)If you have ever tried to open an excel document and received the error that says "There was a problem sending the command to the program", you can fix it by doing the following:
- Open Excel 2007
- Open the Menu in the top left
- Click the "Excel Options" button
- Click the advanced tab on the left of the options screen
- Under the general options uncheck the box "Ignore other application that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)"
Comments
Imran Khan
Thanks a lot
Thanks josh, It really helped me out
Val
You are the best! Thanks Josh
You are the best!
Thanks Josh
Anonymous
Amazing. Thanks a lot, you
Amazing.
Thanks a lot, you saved me a lot of time.
Kaleb
OMG!!! THANK YOU
OMG!!! THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!! I've looked for the solution to this problem for the past 2 days and no one ever could figure it out! :):):)
Jim T in Boston
Wow, worked for me
Wow, I'm using a 3 month old Windows 7 laptop with Office 2007 I started getting this issue with Excel and Word about a week ago for unknown reasons. I cleared the checkbox shown in Excel Options and now the problem is gone in both Excel and Word. I don't know why, but I'm really happy to have found this post via Google! Thanks Josh
Anonymous
It works
Thank you. Easy to follow instructions and it works. Cheers
Lacko
Why ?
The solution is great and indeed saved a lot of time for me and I am really glad for it.
But, however, I would be much more glad if understood why is this a solution to the problem ? Could someone tell me ?
Excel has been working on my computer for a long while, so what have happend that caused this error ?
Minh Nguyen
Thanks Josh, I've encountered
Thanks Josh, I've encountered this issue 2 month ago, I cleared the check box as your guidance and it really works but sometime this issue still occurring, I don't know why.
Dana
The man is a fricking saint.
The man is a fricking saint. thanks for posting this.
Anonymous
Josh you rock!!! I have
Josh you rock!!! I have reinstalled several times, deleted files and god only know what else!!! I live on excel and this has been so freaking painful! THANK YOU!