Excel Application Scope Failure

[whumphries88 (william humphries)]

I downloaded an example of Excel Application scope to test the for loop and read/write activities, but the project is immediately failing on the workbook name. Below screenshots taken from the project, I don’t understand why this wouldn’t run. I have the Excel file right in the project.

[Sheetal_Dayal (SheetalD)]

Hi @whumphries88

It may be because the excel file running in the background or check it for correct path.
Please check the link:

Excel - How to deal with Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A03EC

A few workarounds to the common error code 0x800A03EC. Before you check it out, please make sure you are running the latest available stable Excel package from our Official feed. If you have encountered this error during your Excel processing, please make sure: you can access the file your are working on (in case of shared drives → the file is not open by another user) the file is not open already open in a non-standard editing mode (read-only, password-protected, etc) there is no conflicti…

Hope it helps!
Sheetal

[gulshiyaa]

Hi @whumphries88

Use delay activity and set as 00:00:05
It will work

Thank you