How can I replicate "Ms -office There was a problem sending the command to the program" while opening any excel file in Microsoft Excel 2013/2016" error on my system for testing purpose?

Diksha Uppal 1 Reputation point
2020-09-01T08:14:36.893+00:00

Hi

I want to mimic "Ms -office There was a problem sending the command to the program" while opening any excel file in Microsoft Excel 2013/2016" in order to know if this get's captured by Event viewer and ID for it. Also to know if this error make changes in REGISTRY also.

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  1. KarishmaTiwari-MSFT 20,037 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2020-09-01T23:47:46.157+00:00
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  2. Emi Zhang-MSFT 24,986 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2020-09-02T05:44:52.42+00:00

    Hi,

    There are several reasons for this error message. Normally you receive the following error message in Microsoft Excel. This error indicates that some process that is running inside Excel will not let Excel close. An error occurred when sending commands to the program.

    I suggest you refer to these methods to help you resolve this problem, maybe you can get any points to help you reproduce the error message:

    error-when-send-commands-in-excel


    If the response is helpful, please click "Accept Answer" and upvote it.

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