How to Restore ‘Word is Waiting for an OLE Action to Finish’ Issue on Windows PC

OLE stands for Object Linking & Embedding. OLE is a machine specially developed by Microsoft to help MS Office applications, such as MS Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, interact and communicate with other applications. In this article, we’ve covered the problem in detail and suggested some of the easiest solutions you can apply to your computer to eliminate the error completely. We also listed the reasons why this error usually occurs on your computer.

What causes the “Word is waiting for OLE action to complete” error?

After studying the problem in detail, we concluded that the following causes are probably the most important for the error to occur. read more

How to Eliminate “Error Reference Source Not Found” Issue when Printing from MS Office (2010, 2013 or 2016)

“Error! The message “Error Source Not Found” appears when you delete a header or other content that is “referenced” elsewhere in a Word document. Some users need to remove these error references from the document. In this guide, you will find some tips on how to remove all error references in MS Office.

What causes the ‘Error reference source not found’ error message?

  • A cross-text marker has been deleted: In most cases, the error message appears when a cross-text marker has been deleted.
  • Office installation is corrupt: Some people report that the problem can also occur due to a corrupt Office installation. In this case, healthy cross-reference fields cause this error message.

How do you fix the ‘Reference source not found’ error?


Repair the Office installation

You can restore Word or restore the entire Office installation. If restoring doesn’t work, you can uninstall Office and then install Microsoft 365 again. read more

How to Repair Microsoft Publisher Won’t Save Files as PDF

Microsoft Publisher is a desktop publishing application developed by Microsoft. As a program, it is often used to create documents. Since documents are usually meant to be read, it is natural that people want to save them in one format or another.

For some time now, users have complained that Microsoft Publisher causes problems when they try to save documents in PDF format. Users may get the following error when trying to save a Publisher file in PDF or XPS format: Microsoft Publisher cannot save the file. read more