I don't know of a solution for this. It seems that Excel is locked up, not
redrawing, etc. until control returns to it.

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Jim Rech
Excel MVP
"Mircea Pleteriu" wrote in message
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| It's turned on (as default).
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| "Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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| Have you got screenupdating turned off?
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| HTH
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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.
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| Any idea how to solve this?
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| "Jim Rech" wrote in message
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| Adding Application.DisplayAlerts = False before invoking the other
| instance
| may help.
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| Jim Rech
| Excel MVP
| "Mircea Pleteriu" wrote in message
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| | Hi,
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| | 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
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| | has to do is to display a message box.
| | Everything works fine. But if the message box is not confirmed
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| | the user) in a few seconds the "Microsoft Office Excel is waiting
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| | another application to complete an OLE action" is fired by Excel.
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| | I want the customer to take his time to read the text and confirm
| (or
| not)
| | the message box.
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| | How to handle this?
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| | Many thanks,
| | Mircea
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