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laurentio
5th July 2010, 10:36 PM
PROBLEM:
Opening or trying to open an Excel document from your local computer or from a network share, always ends up with the following error message:
error message "There was a problem sending the command to the program"

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SOLUTION:
In Excel, go into your Options, then Advanced, then in the "General" section, remove the tick from "Ignore other appliations that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)".

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