Excel staying open in background after running Dynamo and closing Revit

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Excel staying open in background after running Dynamo and closing Revit #15353

Open DapperDangus opened 1 week ago

DapperDangus commented 1 week ago

Dynamo Version

3.0.3.7597

Host

Autodesk Revit 2025

Operating System

Microsoft Windows 11

What did you do?

Ran dynamo script

What did you expect to see?

Project updates

What did you see instead?

I saw project updates but dynamo opens excel in background. Even after closing excel when dynamo opens it, excel still continues to run in background.

What packages or external references (if any) were used?

Excel file

Stack Trace

No response

Details

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avidit commented 1 week ago

Even after closing excel when dynamo opens it, excel still continues to run in background.

@pinzart any ideas?

QilongTang commented 1 week ago

hi @DapperDangus Feel free to switch from the Office Excel nodes to OpenXML nodes which are no longer depending on Excel to open (which could happen everytime legacy excel node executes). Namingly to useOpenXMLImportExcel and OpenXMLExportExcel, life gets a bit easier.