Vicki has attended:
Excel VBA Introduction course
OLE/DDE in Excel
Hi,
I have created a form to complete which then generates a document in word. It's all working perfectly for me but when my colleague tries to access he gets an OLE message which then crashes his computer and means he has to restart - I set the DDE preferences to ignore but now we can't open the file from explorer - I know that you need the DDE option to be unchecked for this to happen so my question is - is there another way round this as the OLE message is an issue but we also want to be able to open from explorer. is there any way we can control the OLE message from not appearing AND be able to open the file from explorer?
Thanks
RE: OLE/DDE in Excel
Hi Vicki,
Thank you for the forum question.
I have no experience with the error you describe but if it is working fine on your computer, it should work fine on other computers.
I have not been able to Google your exact issue, but there is a lot of things which can make Excel crash.
I cannot not remember if you use the Word reference library in your code.
Please check if the Word reference library is the same version on your colleague's PC. It should be the same if you have the same version of Windows and Excel.
Often can add-ins crash a PC if there is a conflict between the code and the add-in. If your colleague is running Excel Add-ins it can be the problem.
Have you tried running the code from another colleague's PC?
Kind regards
Jens Bonde
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