Excel error HRESULT 0x800A03EC while trying to get range with cell s name

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I am working with Window Service project  that have to write data to a sheet in Excel file in a sequence times   But sometimes  just sometimes  the service throw out the exception  Exception from HRESULT  0x800A03EC  while it s trying to get range with cell s name   I have put the code of opening excel sheet  and getting cell here    OS  window server 2003 Office  Microsoft Office 2003 sp2   1  Opening excel sheet  m WorkBook   m WorkBooks Open this FilePath  0  false  5               true  Excels XlPlatform xlWindows            true  false  0  true  0  0     2  Getting cell to write  protected object m MissingValue   System Reflection Missing Value  Range range   m WorkSheet get Range cell CellName  m MissingValue      error from this method  and cell name is string

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The error code 0x800A03EC  or -2146827284  means NAME NOT FOUND  in other words  you ve asked for something  and Excel can t find it    This is a generic code  which can apply to lots of things it can t find e g  using properties  which aren t valid at that time like PivotItem SourceNameStandard throws this  when a PivotItem doesn t have a filter applied  Worksheets  BLAHBLAH   throws this  when the sheet doesn t exist etc  In general  you are asking for something with a specific name and it doesn t exist  As for why  that will taking some digging on your part   Check your sheet definitely does have the Range you are asking for  or that the  CellName is definitely giving back the name of the range you are asking for

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Using Dominic s answer I found the answer to my problem specifically was an invalid DateTiime in the source data before it was applied to the range   Somewhere between the database   NET and Excel the conversion of the date defaulted down to  1 1 1899 12 00 00 AM    I had to check it and convert it to an empty string and it fixed it for me   if  objectArray row  col  ToString       1 1 1899 12 00 00 AM         objectArray row  col    string Empty      This is probably a pretty specific example but hopefully it will save somebody else some time if they are trying to track down a piece of invalid data

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The meaning of the completely undocumented error 800A03EC  shame on Microsoft   is something like  OPERATION NOT SUPPORTED    It may happen    when you open a document that has a content created by a newer Excel version  which your current Excel version does not understand  when you save a document to the same path where you have loaded it from  file is already open and locked    But mostly you will see this error due to severe bugs in Excel    For example Microsoft Office Interop Excel Picture has a property  Enabled   When you call it you should receive a bool value  But instead you get an error 800A03EC  This is a bug  And there is a very fat bug in Exel 2013 and 2016  When you automate an Excel process and set Application Visible true and Application WindowState   XlWindowState xlMinimized then you will get hundreds of 800A03EC errors from different functions  like Range Merge    CheckBox Text  Shape TopLeftCell  Shape Locked and many more   This bug does not exist in Excel 2007 and 2010

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I got this when I forgot to unprotect workbook or sheet

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I had this problem when I was trying to use the range AddComment   function   I was able to solve this by calling range ClearComment   before adding the comment

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I found a possible solution here  http   www made4dotnet com Default aspx tabid 141 amp aid 15  Edit   If you automate Microsoft Excel with Microsoft Visual Basic  NET  Microsoft Visual C   NET  or Microsoft Visual C    you may receive the following errors when calling certain methods because the machine has the locale set to something other than US English  locale ID or LCID 1033    Exception from HRESULT  0x800A03EC   and or  Old format or invalid type library  SOLUTION 1     To get around this error you can set CurrentCulture to en-US when executing code related to Excel and reset back to your originale by using these 2 functions     declare a variable to hold the CurrentCulture System Globalization CultureInfo oldCI    get the old CurrenCulture and set the new  en-US void SetNewCurrentCulture       oldCI   System Threading Thread CurrentThread CurrentCulture    System Threading Thread CurrentThread CurrentCulture   new System Globalization CultureInfo  en-US        reset Current Culture back to the originale void ResetCurrentCulture       System Threading Thread CurrentThread CurrentCulture   oldCI      SOLUTION 2     Another solution that could work  create a 1033 directory under Microsoft Office Office11  or your corresponding office-version   copy excel exe to the 1033 directory  and rename it to xllex dll   Although you might solve the problem using one off these solutions  when you call the Excel object model in locales other than US English  the Excel object model can act differently and your code can fail in ways you may not have thought of   For example  you might have code that sets the value of a range to a date   yourRange Value2    10 10 09   Depending on the locale this code can act differently resulting in Excel putting into the range any of the following values   October 10  2009 September 10  2009 October 9  2010

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I ran to a similar error running Excel in VBA  what I ve learned is that when I pull data from MSSQL  and then using get range and  Value2 apply it s out of the range  any value that was of type uniqueidentifier  GUID  resulted in this error   Only when I cast the value to nvarcahr max  it worked

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If you can copy the whole exception it would be much more better  but once I faced with this Exception and this is because the function calling from your dll file which I guess is Aspose dll hasn t been signed well  I think it would be the possible duplicate of this  FYI  in order to find out if your dll hasn t been signed well you should right-click on that and go to the signiture and it will tell you if it has been electronically signed well or not

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I ran into this error because I was attempting to write a string to a cell which started with an         The solution was to put an      apostrophe  before the equals sign  which is a way to tell excel that you re not  in fact  trying to write a formula  and just want to print the equals sign

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Interesting enough  this error also occurs  at time of opening when the  XLS  file is incorrectly formed or require repairs      A hard to find error is to many rows on a  xls  old excel  file   Test it  manually open the affected file with excel desktop        I use automation to process a few hundred files daily  when this error show up  I notify the owner via mail and save the unprocessed file on a temporary location

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I got the error with a space in a Sheet Name   using  var range    excelApp Range  Sheet Name Had Space  A 1   WithComCleanup      I fixed it by putting single quotes around Sheet Names with spaces   using  var range    excelApp Range   Sheet Name Had Space   A 1   WithComCleanup

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I have encountered this error code when enumerating names and calling worksheet get Range name    It seems to occur when the name does NOT apply to a range  in my case it is the name of a macro

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