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I\'m in Excel 2010 connecting to multiple, seperate Access 2010 db\'s from Excel through PivotTable dat
You can use VBA to call your refreshes individually via the activeworkbook.connections object. See this Stack Overflow post for some clues on this method. The more atomistic appoach may allow better insight and control. For example, once you have all the steps in place, you can try inserting DoEvents
to solve the issue.