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There was a problem sending the command to the program: Excel 2007 Error

If you’re getting the following error message when opening an Excel 2007 file in Windows 7 (only when there’s no Excel window currently open in your system), then do the following in order to fix it.

There was a problem sending the command to the program
There was a problem sending the command to the program
  • Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Excel Options.
  • Click Advanced, and then click to clear the “Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)” check box in the General area.
Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)
Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)
  • Click OK.
  • If the “Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)” check box is already unticked then tick it then Click OK.
  • Close Excel
  • Reopen Excel
  • Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Excel Options.
  • Click Advanced, and then click to clear the “Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)” check box in the General area.
  • Click OK.
  • Go to Start -> Run -> regedt32.exe

run_regedt32

  • Go to “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.12\shell\Open” and export and save the “ddeexec” key.

backup_ddexec

  • Go to “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.12\shell\Open” and delete the “ddeexec” key.

delete_ddexec

  • Reboot your machine.