From: Umair on
Bring up the Excel options, go to advanced and then scroll down to the "General" section. Make sure that "Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)" is not checked.
This did fix my problem



Ben Bazian wrote:

Office 2007 on Windows 7 "There was a problem sending the command to the program"
19-Nov-09

All of a sudden I have a user that is getting "There was a problem sending
the command to the program" when clicking on a document. Second time the
document will open. This is a new issue. I am only seeing this on Word for
now.

-Ben

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On Thursday, November 19, 2009 2:32 PM
Ben Bazian wrote:

Office 2007 on Windows 7 "There was a problem sending the command to the program"
All of a sudden I have a user that is getting "There was a problem sending
the command to the program" when clicking on a document. Second time the
document will open. This is a new issue. I am only seeing this on Word for
now.

-Ben

On Tuesday, January 05, 2010 2:19 AM
Umair Jallani wrote:

There was a problem sending the command to the program
Bring up the Excel options, go to advanced and then scroll down to the

"General" section. Make sure that "Ignore other applications that use

Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)" is not checked.

This did fix my problem


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