This type of message (Excel is Busy) is generally associated with a process conflicts with the communication between Xcelsius and Excel (Office Automation), which is actually not an Xcelsius error. This is typically caused by having an Excel add-in enabled. Certain types of add-ins will operate in the background which can disturb the Automation between the two applications.
Another reason might be have you upgraded from office 2003 to office 2007.When you did that, you should reinstall xcelsius again on 2007, so that it would be compatible.And below might be some of these possible reasons from my research…
The common reasons for the issue.
ü Add-ins -> Disable it.
ü Macros -> Remove it, not supported.
ü Norton Antivirus 2002 -> Upgrade to greater version.
ü Excel files open -> Close them.
ü Diff. versions of MS office installed -> only one version of office needed.
ü Files made in diff. version -> Use same version files.
ü Also tried Un-installing & re-installing MS Office & CX.
û Anti-SpyWare -> Stop real time monitoring function of it…
û Improper registered .dll files in windows -> un-install & re-install Windows.
This is regarding the Xcelcius Server busy error that I was getting. Everytime I tried importing an Excel document in Xcelcius, it gave me a message of Server Busy with options of Switch To and Retry. None of these worked. I got a way to workaround this, which is as follows:
Press Contrl+Alt+Del (Task Manager)
2)On the Applications Tab, there would be an Application named Microsoft Compatability Checker. Right click on that application
Click Switch To in the drop down
You will get a pop-up, saying Significant loss of functionality
Click on Continue
Click on Retry again, you will get the excel imported
This error message pops up when there are typically 2 excel instances having a conflict. Solution for resolving this by going to task manager and killing one excel process.
(BOB member since 2006-05-11)