Excel appears to be busy - but I have kill actvity before

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Why that might be?
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Before I have:

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@chowus

Give process name in “”
pass this: “excel”

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no its studioX its fine I have it later on like that and IS OK

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Hi @chowus

Try this

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@chowus

Give some delay after killing the process.

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@chowus

Kindly do the following:

  1. Use this key combination [Windows] + R to open the Run dialog
  2. Paste the following command… taskkill /f /im excel.exe
  3. Then click on the OK button

The above should kill all running Excel processes. Then restart MS Excel to see if the issue is resolved.

It appears that sometimes excel stays open in the background, let me know if this resolves you issue.
Also can you let me know if this happens after the automation was running or before?

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i did it and still the same message weird…
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@chowus

I think you are using filter range activity check on this or try to debug the workflow then check which activity gets error

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yes I use filter activity but its all correct

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try to debug the workflow the error message screenshot place here

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I think it is because I use excel on my onedrive account but still I don’t use it at the momentj so shoudl be fine!

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check the filter range

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0x800AC472 i got new error now

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@chowus

Kindly try with WORKBOOK ACTIVITIES with READ RANGE ACTIVITY instead of EXCEL APPLICATION SCOPE and try once
That would work for sure

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look its all good

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@chowus

The “0x800AC472” error is a common error encountered when working with Microsoft Excel. It indicates that there was an issue interacting with Excel, usually related to Excel being busy, not responding, or encountering some other problem during automation.

Sometimes, the error occurs when the robot tries to interact with Excel while Excel is in the process of performing an operation. Use appropriate delays or wait activities to ensure that the robot waits for Excel to finish before proceeding with the next interaction.

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@chowus

Once check Configure Filter conditions matches or not

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@chowus

Did you use multiple excel files in the process?

Add some delays between each interaction to the excel might solve this issue.

Use workbook and datatable activities to escape from these type of errors.

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Hi @chowus

Delay Activities : Add some delay between Excel-related activities to allow Excel to respond properly. Excel sometimes takes a brief moment to process data, and adding a small delay can help avoid conflicts
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Hope it helps!!

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Change this property in excel process scope activity instead of kill process activity:
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@chowus

Hope it helps.