Microsoft Excel is waiting for another application to complete an OLE function
Microsoft Excel is waiting for another application to complete an OLE function. I get this just trying to do a simple calculation in Excel! I've tried checking and unchecking the Ignore other applications ... check box. It seemed to make it worse! I got multiple dialogue boxes opening!

After consistently getting a number of dialogue boxes opening with this message I decided to shut down my computer through task manager.
A new dialogue box opened (over the list of programs still needing to close) showing:
“The instruction at 02fb0a9b2 referenced memory at 0x00000028. The memory could not be read. Click O.K. to terminate the program”
Four programs still needed to close:
The screen showed:
1.	(Waiting for) EXCEL.EXE  This program is preventing Windows from shutting down
2.	HP Connection Manager
3.	Select Updates to instal
4.	Excel.EXE – Application error
Is that reference in the dialogue box the  the consistent problem, or part of the problem, “Microsoft Excel is waiting for another application to complete an OLE function”? 

I forced the shut down and walked away from it all!
Does anyone have a real answer to this?
Microsoft Excel is waiting for another application to complete an OLE function
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Microsoft Excel is waiting for another application to complete an OLE function. I get this just trying to do a simple calculation in Excel! I've tried checking and unchecking the Ignore other applications ... check box. It seemed to make it worse! I got multiple dialogue boxes opening!

After consistently getting a number of dialogue boxes opening with this message I decided to shut down my computer through task manager.
A new dialogue box opened (over the list of programs still needing to close) showing:
“The instruction at 02fb0a9b2 referenced memory at 0x00000028. The memory could not be read. Click O.K. to terminate the program”
Four programs still needed to close:
The screen showed:
1.	(Waiting for) EXCEL.EXE  This program is preventing Windows from shutting down
2.	HP Connection Manager
3.	Select Updates to instal
4.	Excel.EXE – Application error
Is that reference in the dialogue box the  the consistent problem, or part of the problem, “Microsoft Excel is waiting for another application to complete an OLE function”? 

I forced the shut down and walked away from it all!
Does anyone have a real answer to this?