HRESULT 0x800A03EC on Worksheet range

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I am getting HRESULT  0x800A03EC on Worksheet range method  Number of rows are more than 70K  Office 2007   Code   Microsoft Office Interop Excel Range neededRange       currentWS Range cell Cells 1  1   cell Cells nRowCount  nColumnCount      Here my rowcount is more than 65530   Breaks on this function  I have observed that it breaks only when row count goes more than 65530

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This problem occurs if you are using a backwards compatible sheet (a .xls) instead of a .xlsx

To allow sheets to be opened in pre office 2007 version it can't contain more than 65k rows. You can check the number of rows in your sheet by using ctrl+arrowdown till you hit the bottom. If you try to get a range larger than that number of rows it will create an error

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Simply  the excel file is corrupt  Best solution is change repair the file  make a copy of the existing file and rename it

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I agree with Hugh W post  I conclude that the same error code is used to indicate multiple unrelated problems   Other posts have not mentioned that this error occurs frequently if the worksheet is locked  While I haven t tested every scenario  it seems that anything that you can not do in excel when a worksheet is locked with throw this error if you attempt to do it via VSTO Com while the sheet is locked  E G  Changing any style artifact  font  font size  colour  underline   changing the Excel Validation  changing the column widths  row heights  formulas

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EDIT  THIS IS WAY BETTER    You don t need that old function  sorry   Just do as follows   Microsoft Office Interop Excel Range neededRange   currentWS Range  A1     Microsoft Office Interop Excel Range currentWS Cells nRowCount  nColumnCount       That should work like a charm   And for future reference  put the relevant code that you are using inside of your question   Don t make people ask for it in comments  I imagine that s why you got downvoted

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I had the same error code when executing the following statement   sheet QueryTables Add  TEXT   amp  Path GetFullPath fileName    1 1   Type Missing    The reason was the missing semicolon     after  TEXT     Here is the correct one   sheet QueryTables Add  TEXT    amp  Path GetFullPath fileName    1 1   Type Missing

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I also faced the same issue  when I was developing a application which exports project contents into excel file   I could not found the resolution in forums for my problem  then I check the maximum capacity of excel and found below link which says    Worksheet size 1 048 576 rows by 16 384 columns  and this was the issue in my case  I was exporting more than that rows  Refer below link for details  http   answers microsoft com en-us office forum office 2013 release-excel with-excel-2013how-many-rows-will-this-contain 271264fb-3ab8-4c5b-aa0d-7095c5ac6108  Regards Prashant Neve

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Looking at the various responses above  and drawing on my own recent experience  I got this error code doing something completely unrelated -- setting Application Calculation  I conclude that the same error code is used to indicate multiple unrelated problems  So  Garreh you should probably be asking a new question  not that anyone will be able to help based on the error code alone   I ve seen the same thing working with Word interop from C   where the same HRESULT seems to be used for almost every kind of error  I ve never found any satisfactory Microsoft documentation on what the codes might mean

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I had an error with exact code when I tried to assigned array of cells to range Value  In my case it was the problem with wrong data format  The cell s data format was set as DATE but the user made an error and instead of  20 02 2013  entered date  20 02 0213   The Excel s COM object refused taking year  0213  and threw exception with this error

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I received this error code 0x800A03EC when trying to save an Excel file created within my  Net application in VS 2017   I changed the Excel Application object property Visible True and let it run until the point of failure  Tried to finish the steps manually in Excel and then discovered I could not save the file because of missing folder permissions  I added the Write permission to the folder  and the error went away

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I got this error because I tried to rename a sheet with too many characters

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I got this exception because I typed   ws get Range  K K   EntireColumn AutoFit    ws get Range  N N   EntireColumn AutoFit    ws get Range  0 0   EntireColumn AutoFit      See a mistake  Hint  Excel is accepting indexing from 1  but not from 0 as C  does

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Not being able to reply to endorse this answer  so posting here   Indeed  the format of the source destination ranges when moving data from one range to another might cause this error as well   In my case  the range I wanted to copy contained a date formatted column  and the column contained one cell with an invalid date value  it was not even formatted due to its value  which was a negative integer   So the copy operation between the two ranges was halting at the said cell yielding the very error message discussed here   The solution in my case was to use Range Value2 instead of Range Value  which caused Excel to bypass formatting the cell as a date  more details here   However  this will render your date and time columns to display as integers and decimals  You will  however  be able to change the formats to the desired ones if you know where to expect the date and time values by setting their Range Column Cell NumberFormat property accordingly

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For others like me  who have the same exception   It can also happen if you try to pass a null value instead of Missing Value  or Type Missing   e g   Worksheet worksheet        return worksheet Range  A1   null     This call generates the error 0x800A03EC  return worksheet Range  A1   Missing Value     This works correctly

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This type of error can also occur when the excel file is corrupted for some reason

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This could also be caused if you have no room on the partition you are saving to    I checked my HD and foind it was maxed  Moving some un-needed files to a different partition resolved my problem

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Seems like this i s a pretty generic error for  something went wrong  with the operation you attempted  I have observed that will also occur if you have a formula error and are assigning that formula into a cell  E g    fubar

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Just FYI  got the error trying to apply row style      wSheet Rows y  Style   System Drawing ColorTranslator ToOle System Drawing Color Red

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in 2021  when i got this problem  the reason actually is  for a Excel range or cell  i was trying to add delete comment directly without checking whether there is a comment binding with it or not  error code is  if   comments string Length    0        range AddComment  comments string      working code is  if   comments string Length    0        if  range Comment    null  range Comment Delete         range AddComment comments string

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I don t understand the issue  But here is the thing that solved my issue    Go to Excel Options   Save   Save Files in this format   Select  Excel Workbook   xlsx    Previously  my WorkBooks were opening in  Compatibuility Mode  And now they are opening in normal mode  Range function works fine with that

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This isn t directly answering the question  but I was getting this error when opening an xlsx file  The problem was that I was using forward slashes in my file path  See also https   stackoverflow com a 24635904 5932003  It used to work in previous versions of Excel  but not with Version 1711  Build 8730 2127    I was able to diagnose the problem using IDispatch- Invoke      EXCEPINFO        The EXCEPINFO object contained a useful description of what went wrong  I was in C   land  but I suspect that C  code similar to this SO post will do the trick  Packaging IDispatch Invoke with Parameters in C   with DISPPARAMS

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I resolved this issue by using the code below  Please do not use other parameters in these functions   mWorkBook   xlApp Workbooks Open FilePath   mWorkBook Save      RESOLVED

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I encountered this issue   Discovered that somewhere in my code I was asking it to count starting from 0  as you would in a C  code    Turns out Excel counting starts at 1

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We were receiving the same  The exception was     Stacktrace     at Microsoft Office Interop Excel  Workbook SaveAs Object Filename  Object FileFormat  Object Password  Object WriteResPassword  Object    ReadOnlyRecommended  Object CreateBackup  XlSaveAsAccessMode AccessMode  Object ConflictResolution  Object AddToMru  Object TextCodepage  Object Text   VisualLayout  Object Local     with an inner exception of     Exception from HRESULT  0x800A03EC 2012-11-01 10 37 59    We were able to resolve the problem with information from this post  which I quote here for convenience      Login to the server as a administrator  Go to  Start  -   Run  and enter  taskmgr  Go to the process tab in task manager and check  Show Processes from all users  If there are any  Excel exe  entries on the list  right click on the entry and select  End Process  Close task manager  Go to  Start  -   Run  and enter  services msc  Stop the service automating Excel if it is running  Go to  Start  -   Run  and enter  dcomcnfg  This will bring up the component services window  expand out  Console Root  -   Computers  -   DCOM Config  Find  Microsoft Excel Application  in the list of components  Right click on the entry and select  Properties  Go to the  Identity  tab on the properties dialog  Select  The interactive user   Click the  OK  button  Switch to the services console Start the service automating Excel Test you application again

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I ve come across it several different times and every time it was always some error with either duplicating a tab name or in this current case it just occurred because I simply had a typo in the get Range where I tried to get a Cell by number and number instead of the letter and number  Drove me crazy because the error pointed me to a few lines down but I had commented out all of the creation of the other sheets above the  error line  and the ones in the line and below were created with no issue  Happened to scan up a few lines above and saw that I put 6   lastword  C   lastrow in my get Range statement and of course you can t have a cell starting with a number it s always letter than number

[c#] HRESULT: 0x800A03EC on Worksheet.range

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