'Cannot start the source application for this object' Message Having trouble locating a solution that will troubleshoot the 'Cannot start the source application for this object' within Excel. I have embedded an Excel file and Word doc within the Excel file and I'm no longer able to open the files. Wondering if anyone else has come across this. Trying to open an embedded pdf from an Excel file, getting the error, 'Alert. Cannot start the source application for this object.' Anyone know why? I've been Googling this for an hour now, nothing. Any help would be appreciated. For Windows 8 and Windows 10, choose Start, and then type Control Panel. Note: For Windows 10, in Control Panel, make sure the View by box in the upper-right corner is set to Category. Cannot start the source application for this object. I assumed this to be a file association issue at first but file association for jpeg files is fine. He has no issues opening the jpeg direct from source but not from within the spreadsheet. Have tried running Excel under the local admin profile but still the same message so not a profile issue.
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I didn't have problems until I installed DWG trueview 2010. Then these Ole objects, started being named as DWG TrueView Drawings (instead of Autocad Drawing as before), and can’t be edited double clicking them. If you try to do this, a message box with the text 'Cannot start the source application for this object' pops up.
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I have the exact same Problem as someone in an pretty old thread ( How to close modal windows automatically? )
I am pretty desperate, I spent hours today trying to find a fix.. Can anyone maybe help me? I would even be open for any sort of workaround or hack.
Cannot Start The Source Application For This Object Excel Mac
I dashboard a continuously running PowerPoint presentation that feeds off of data and charts from Excel. From time to time (between once to a handful of times a day) I get the error message in PowerPoint: 'The Source Application is Busy and Can't Respond Immediately.'
Via Microsoft, You Cannot Stop or Cancel the 'The Source Application Is Busy and Can't Respond Immediately' Error Message, it's because a modal window is open in Excel. However, every time I receive this error, I go to Excel and I don't see a modal window, so the error appears to have taken care of itself in Excel immediately. However, PowerPoint won't continue until I hit retry (which always works).
Cannot Start The Source Application For This Object Excel 2016 Mac
Is there any way I can automatically close out of a modal window? At this point, I can only hypothesize what might be causing the error because the error window never shows in Excel by the time I get there. I'm thinking it's either:
- Using the ontime() function, I automatically refresh the pivot caches and charts every ten minutes. This may conflict with a PowerPoint add-on that refreshes the links to the Excel objects every time the slideshow loops. The presentation hangs for a few seconds every time the linked data changes, and I'm wondering if PowerPoint is unable to read the link data if it is being refreshed in Excel. I always receive this error on the first slide (when it refreshes the linked data) so I'm thinking the likely culprit is in here.
- I have data connections in Excel that use web queries to google drive, sometimes I get an error message in Excel that says the data refresh was unsuccessful, but this doesn't appear to have any affect on the PowerPoint presentation.