Hi @Anonymous
Can you confirm that the excel sheet is not open in any of the tabs when you are creating the action? Can you please post a screenshot of the error message/ flow?
You can try logging out of the current session and closing the browser window, start a fresh session and try again. At times such errors pop up due to caching issues.
Hope this Helps!
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