Has anyone else encountered this problem. Using Office automation within VB, the user starts an Office process, and while it is processing, does something that causes focus to go somewhere else, they get this message:

Component Request Pending

This action canot be completed because the other application is busy. Choose 'Switch to' to activate the busy application and correct the problem.

Switch to... Retry

Sometimes this locks up the automation process and we have to kill the application and/or the Office process. We are getting this on a couple of projects, developed by different people.