>>I cannot see why it doen't make sense: how would you then explain that reboot helped? My guess is that while rebooting the hanging Excel instancies were closed.
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>It's a typo. Meant to say it is: Good idea. .... So this DOES make sense
There was a Russian saying where the place of the dot made a life-and death difference. :)
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