Error: "Microsoft Office Excel is waiting for another application to complete an OLE action"

Microsoft Office Excel throws the  Error "Microsoft Office Excel is waiting for another application to complete an OLE action" while sending an excel sheet as a Mail Recipient (as attachment)

Reported to Engineering

 

Use GroupWise 7 client.

1. Login to GroupWise 8 client.

2. Open Microsoft Excel 2003 and type in few words in the excel sheet.

3. Click on File | Send to | Mail Recipient (as attachment)

4. It will open up a new mail, continue typing something in the body of the mail for 3-4 minutes.

 

Excel will throw the above mentioned error. 

 

Note: The above error does not prevent user from working on the mail and mail goes fine.