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> Finally figured out what is causing the busy message. If you have the add-in
> called "Microsoft Office Live Add-In" checked in Word 2007 or Excel 2007 you
> simply need to uncheck this and the busy message is gone and ON works.
> Crazy, but glad it works now.
>

Glad to hear you have a workaround.
Thank you for the feedback.

Bernd

paisan99 wrote:
> Finally figured out what is causing the busy message. If you have
> the add-in called "Microsoft Office Live Add-In" checked in Word 2007
> or Excel 2007 you simply need to uncheck this and the busy message is
> gone and ON works. Crazy, but glad it works now.

Thanks a lot for the important feedback!

Rainald

> "Bernd" wrote:
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>>> Simply opening the Word program and minimizing it allows ON links
>>> to open each and every time without getting the "busy" message.
>>> But I cannot see the relationship between opening a link in ON to a
>>> Word document and having to have the Word program open and running.
>>>
>>> I am not sure what you mean be a timing issue. What is taking too
>>> long?
>>>
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>> This reaction I expected.
>>
>> The question is, how does ON execute your click on the link.
>> There are two different general procedures:
>>
>> 1. ON starts Word asynchronously with a file parameter describing the
>> path to the linked file. Period. = "fire and forget"
>> -> Never any timing problem
>>
>> 2. ON acts synchronously, that means: at first ON starts Word AND
>> wants to communicate with Word for telling the path etc. to Word. So
>> it WAITS for a reaction/acknowledgment from Word. Such wait MUST
>> have a time limit. If Word's start time is too long -> "busy".
>>
>> If Word is already started -> no problem in both cases.
>>
>> That's what I GUESS.
>>
>> If anyone knows it better ...please tell us
>>
>> Bernd