Excel Add-in & Multiple excel sessions.

We all know the limitation of the add-in with multiple sessions of excel going (unpredictable results), but for an accountant it seems pretty restrictive. Especailly if there are long running retrieves. e.g. a macro that retrieves data for multiple sheets.
Anyone found a way to let someone continue working with excel (not in retrieve mode) while the long running retrieve is going?

First, understand that the session limit is one of Excel instancing, not connection/workbook related itself.
You can, with a single excel session, have multiple workbooks open, running multiple calcs connected to multiple databases, and continue to do retrieves relatively unmolested.
The impact on doing the additional items is not severe, but occasionally noticeable.
The session limit itself is a pain when you have embedded spreadsheets though, because you wouldn't be able to work in a spreadsheet attached to a powerpoint presentation if excel is open, and you do tend to get limited quite significantly if excel is not your "primary" session.

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