Closing Excel workbook throws 'Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A03EC' IserSchou 14.09.2006 08:47:01 I am developing an Office 2003 SmartDocument application where Excel charts in the document are to be populated with data from C# code. The following code handles the update of all Excel charts in the document: System.Globalization.CultureInfo ciOld = System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture; System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US"); try { foreach (InlineShape objShape in wordDocument.InlineShapes) { if (objShape.OLEFormat != null && objShape.OLEFormat.ClassType == "Excel.Chart.8") { objShape.Activate(); Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook objWorkBook = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook)objShape.OLEFormat.Object; Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application objApp = objWorkBook.Application; // Some code to manipulate the workbook... objApp.Workbooks.Close(); objApp.Quit(); } } } catch (Exception e) { MessageBox.Show("Error: " + e.Message, "", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error); } finally { System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = ciOld; } Executing the code as displayed above, throws an exception (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A03EC) in the line containing 'objApp.Workbooks.Close();' for the first chart encountered. Omitting the call will leave the chart selected in the document hiding the Actions Pane which is NOT intended. Using objWorkBook.Close() also results in the same exception being thrown. Am I missing something - is there a workaround - suggestions are very welcome.

Re: Closing Excel workbook throws 'Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A03EC' Cindy M. <C.Meister-C[ at ]hispeed.ch> 14.09.2006 14:13:46 See my response to GailHurn "How do you close embedded workbook in Word?" in the Office.Developer.Office.SDKs newsgroup. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)

Re: Closing Excel workbook throws 'Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A0 IserSchou 15.09.2006 07:19:02 Wow! Thank you very much Cindy. After experimenting a little with the DoVerb I got a solution where my Excel Graph objects are all populated with data and drawn without any flickering what so ever. Again, thank you very much. Morten Schou Medtronic A/S, Denmark "Cindy M." wrote: [Quoted Text] > See my response to GailHurn "How do you close embedded > workbook in Word?" in the Office.Developer.Office.SDKs > newsgroup. > > Cindy Meister > INTER-Solutions, Switzerland > http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update > Jun 17 2005) > http://www.word.mvps.org > > This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any > follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail > :-) > >