Microsoft KB Archive/813725

= You Cannot Stop or Cancel the &quot;The Source Application Is Busy and Can't Respond Immediately&quot; Error Message =

Article ID: 813725

Article Last Modified on 2/1/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003

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For a Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 version of this article, see 285434.



SYMPTOMS
When you try to open an embedded object in a PowerPoint presentation, you may receive the following error message:

The source application is busy and can't respond immediately

If you then click Cancel, you continue to receive the error message.



CAUSE
This problem occurs if the object is already open for editing and the program has a modal window open. Modal windows are dialog boxes or error messages that must be closed before you can do anything else with the program. Clicking Cancel does not stop PowerPoint from trying to activate the embedded object.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem:
 * 1) Click Cancel.
 * 2) On the task bar, click the program that has the object open, or press ALT+TAB repeatedly until you select the program that has the object open.
 * 3) Close any open dialog boxes or error messages for this program.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Keywords: kberrmsg kbprb KB813725

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