Excel 2007: "There Was A Problem Sending The Command To The Program"

If you have ever tried to open an excel document and received the error that says "There was a problem sending the command to the program", you can fix it by doing the following:

1. Open Excel 2007
2. Open the Menu in the top left
3. Click the "Excel Options" button

• Click the advanced tab on the left of the options screen
• Under the general options uncheck the box "Ignore other application that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)"