Excel process still running

[Nick]

I'm using the excel commands to set cell values and get cell values. At the end of my task I close the workbook. The Excel application window closes... however the Excel process is still running under the Windows task manager. I tried converting my AA task to EXE and the results are the same... except the EXE version creates a new Excel process every time I run the EXE and doesn't end the process. So for example: If I run the task 3 times, the Windows task manager shows 3 Excel processes running.

[forumsupport]

Hello Nick,

Can you please paste the text format of the task. I suspect you may not be having the Close Spreadsheet command in your task.

[Nick]

sent steps to email support

[Handroid]

Hi Nick,

I had the same issue- so i looked into how it could be done and discovered that it could be done with the 'killtask' command in a cmd window so I created a task to fully automate the process.

I know this thread was old but there is still no "End Process" tool within AA, and no public solution had been offered. So here's my offering...

See below the attached task. It may need adjusting according to your configuration, OS etc.

This task kills all excel.exe processes but of course could easily be adapted to end any other process required.

Kill_Process_(example used is excel.exe).atmn

Enjoy


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[forumsupport]

Hello,

Excel:Close Spreadsheet command does ends the excel process running in background. We have attached sample task we tested with.