Mark1110
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Permission Denied When Trying To Open An Excel Object
HI,
I have a VB6 application that takes data from an access database and populates an excel spreadsheet. I am running into a problem with some users of the program that when they try to run the report that populates the excel spreadsheet they get an "Access Denied" error. As a workaround what I do is to go their machine, press Control-Alt-Delete and removing an instance of excel that is stuck in memory. This happens about 2 - 3 percent of the time for the users, but it does happen. I am not sure why. Here is some of the code in the program:
Set oExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Applic
Set oExcelWorkBook = oExcel.Workbooks.Open("C:\
Set oExcelWorkSheet = oExcelWorkBook.ActiveSheet
oExcelWorkSheet.SaveAs "C:\Blah.XLS"
oExcel.Quit
Set oExcel = Nothing
Set oExcelWorkBook = Nothing
Set oExcelWorkSheet = Nothing
I can't see anything wrong with the code. Is there a way to see if there is an instance of excel in memory and if there is to delete it? Has anyone experienced this problem before?
Thanks,
Mark
I have a VB6 application that takes data from an access database and populates an excel spreadsheet. I am running into a problem with some users of the program that when they try to run the report that populates the excel spreadsheet they get an "Access Denied" error. As a workaround what I do is to go their machine, press Control-Alt-Delete and removing an instance of excel that is stuck in memory. This happens about 2 - 3 percent of the time for the users, but it does happen. I am not sure why. Here is some of the code in the program:
Set oExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Applic
Set oExcelWorkBook = oExcel.Workbooks.Open("C:\
Set oExcelWorkSheet = oExcelWorkBook.ActiveSheet
oExcelWorkSheet.SaveAs "C:\Blah.XLS"
oExcel.Quit
Set oExcel = Nothing
Set oExcelWorkBook = Nothing
Set oExcelWorkSheet = Nothing
I can't see anything wrong with the code. Is there a way to see if there is an instance of excel in memory and if there is to delete it? Has anyone experienced this problem before?
Thanks,
Mark
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Mark,
The code I supplied will grab *some* instance of Excel if there already is one running, and kill it.
You may need to run that in a loop to grab and kill all instances of Excel.
Regards,
Patrick
The code I supplied will grab *some* instance of Excel if there already is one running, and kill it.
You may need to run that in a loop to grab and kill all instances of Excel.
Regards,
Patrick
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Will this work if the user just go into the application then runs a report? How about if the user has a couple of excel spreadsheets open? How will this solution distinguish between the excel instances and know which one to close? When you enter the command Set oExcel = GetObject(, "Excel.Application") and get the permission denied error, is oExcel still set? I still don't see how I can delete the bad instance of excel in memory that is causing the access denied error.
Mark