Excel automation is notorious for being difficult to get right. There is a class called ExcelHelper which – well – helps with automating Excel. There are examples included with Scriptom that show how to use it, and the source code is not long. It takes care of setting a few flags and works from a copy of the original file, all of which make the automation process a lot more robust.

Jacob is a great library, but you have to know a lot about COM to get it to work reliably. We’ve been working to hide all the best tricks in Scriptom so that it’s easier for COM experts and novices alike.

I’m glad you like the improvements!

I’ve made some contributions to the project for some (long) time, but that’s all (at the time where it crashed randomly what motivated to migrate to POI to read my Excel files ).