Hi, I am trying to read an Excel-sheet with the Read Range activity, but the bot crashes with the error message “Unexpected identifier”. What is the background for this error, and how can I fix it? The problem only occurs for some specific files, and I am able to read all other Excel files than the…

Hi, [image] Exception when reading Excel file Help Hi, I recently completed the Basic Training and am now trying to get started on a simple project. First step is reading an excel file, which fails with an exception: Main has thrown an exception Message: Syntax error. …

Than you for your answer! Using Excel application scope seems to do the trick - however, I would very much like to know what went wrong when using the “Read Range” activity by itself, and how this can be avoided in the future. The acitivity worked well with the problematic file just last week, so I…

I’m glad I’m not the only one that runs into problems… Did you recently upgrade the software? It’s not the first random and unexplainable problem I have, so I’m not too surprised this happened…

I don’t think I have updated the software in a while. I currently run version 2016.2.6274. In my case, I suspect the sudden change of functionality may be due to me creating a custom Excel activity referencing the Runtime.InteropServices and Office.Interop.Excel assemblies. If I am very unlucky, on…

I don’t use Excel activities, but have the same error. That may point to a different underlying issue.

Unexpected identifier

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ddpadil (Dilip) July 10, 2017, 10:36am 2

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