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
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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:

  1. Open Excel 2007
  2. Open the Menu in the top left
  3. Click the "Excel Options" button

  4. Click the advanced tab on the left of the options screen
  5. Under the general options uncheck the box "Ignore other application that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)"

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May 25, 2010

MJ

Help!

Please help. I have unchecked the DDE option and removed all Add-ins, yet I still cannot open Excel docs directly.

June 10, 2010

Anonymous

Thanks a lot bro..u r the

Thanks a lot bro..u r the best!!!

June 19, 2010

Anonymous

Thanks

Thank you so much

June 22, 2010

Anonymous

Good Job

Hi,

It's really helpful and solve my problem.

Thanks alots!!

Regards,
Ken Ng.
Team of eMYhost.com

June 24, 2010

Anonymous

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

June 30, 2010

fari

thank you

thank you very much...it really worked...:)

July 7, 2010

Anonymous

Thank you so much! You're

Thank you so much! You're screen shots were so much easier to understand then all the other geek forums... i consider myself computer savy, but when your frustrated and in a hurry its nice to have easy to read quick solutions! Thank you so much! You Rock!!!

July 21, 2010

(:

You are going to heaven!

DUDE! Thanks!!!

July 22, 2010

happycamper

thanks Josh. googled the

thanks Josh. googled the error and found this site. solution worked perfectly.

July 22, 2010

Anonymous

This worked. Thanks. I still

This worked. Thanks. I still wonder why I started getting the error in the first place. Thanks for the fix.

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