Have you got screenupdating turned off?

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RP
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"Mircea Pleteriu" wrote in message
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Thanks. It works.
Second problem. While the message box is displayed, it looks like that the
surface of Excel is stuck. That is, if I move the message box window the
surface of Excel gets dirty.

Any idea how to solve this?

"Jim Rech" wrote in message
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Adding Application.DisplayAlerts = False before invoking the other
instance
may help.

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"Mircea Pleteriu" wrote in message
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| Hi,
|
| I'm developing a class which for a given filepath has to open the MS
Excel
| and extend the context menu with a new item. When the item is clicked
all
it
| has to do is to display a message box.
| Everything works fine. But if the message box is not confirmed (closed
by
| the user) in a few seconds the "Microsoft Office Excel is waiting for
| another application to complete an OLE action" is fired by Excel.
|
| I want the customer to take his time to read the text and confirm (or
not)
| the message box.
|
| How to handle this?
|
| Many thanks,
| Mircea
|
|