Insert Sheet: 0x800A03EC

[Matej]

Hey, guys,

I’m having a problem creating a new worksheet in an existing Excel. Almost every time I get the error “Insert sheet: 0x800A03EC”.
I kill all excel processes before the robot starts working with excel. There is a delay before the actual creation of the sheet.

However, nothing has been done to resolve this error.

If you have any idea what could be causing this error, please let me know.

Thank you in advance.

[lrtetala (Lakshman Reddy)]

Hi @Matej

Please check on this

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…

[atomic]

1. Check if the path provided in the “Use Excel File” scope is valid. Debug and set a breakpoint and inspect locals panel.

2. Even if you killed the excel process in INIT/or similar make sure there is not anything else in your processing locking the excel file.