Getting "Excel instance is un-initialized. Please doublecheck that..." Error

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Whenever i run Flow for first time its working properly but second time while launching excel i am getting this error

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: System.Exception: Excel instance is un-initialized. Please doublecheck that the correct Excel instance has been specified and that it's used after a Launch Excel / Attach to running Excel action and not after the Excel instance has been closed.
 at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.Excel.Actions.ExcelActions.SetActiveWorksheet(Variant excelInstance, Variant sheetIndex, Variant sheetName, Int32 findWorksheetMode)
 at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.Excel.Actions.SetActiveWorksheet.Execute(ActionContext context)
 at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Robin.Engine.Execution.ActionRunner.Run(IActionStatement statement, Dictionary`2 inputArguments, Dictionary`2 outputArguments)

I tried to open excel sheet manually, entire excel become greyed

How to fix this?

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Guriga 188 on at

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Check your Task Manager, kill all Excel tasks and try again.
IF it does not help reboot your PC. 🙂

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I tried everything..... Still not working for me ;-;
First time its working properly but whenever i run it for second time then it show me this error

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Check this:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Automate-Desktop/Power-Automate-will-not-launch-excel/td-p/1311762

If this not help can you show your flow, please?

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Actually workflow is huge.... having 7-8 subflows

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Actually I tried with making all launch excel instance visible... its working properly
But when i turned off this option its giving me same error..

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Same experience.

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Kaif_Siddique 2,108 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Try killing/terminating Excel process.

Regards
Kaif

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