VBS Doesn't stop running

Question

I have a scheduled task that launches a vb script which in turn runs a macro within excel. Everything runs fine (as in I get the results I want), however, the scheduled task re

Answer 1

Unfortunately as you realized:

    Workbooks("My File.xlsm").Activate
    Worksheets("Outputs").Select
    'ActiveWorkbook.Save
    'ActiveWorkbook.Close - this line cause vbs to fail after creating my csv
    Application.ScreenUpdating = True
    Application.DisplayAlerts = True

Will give you an error due to the fact that the xlBook object is attempting to close the already closed workbook. I believe that if you update VBScript to:

Option Explicit

Dim xlApp, xlBook

Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Set xlBook = xlApp.Workbooks.Open("C:\MyPath\My File.xlsm", 0, True)
xlApp.Run "myMacro"
'xlBook.Close Remove this line
xlApp.Quit

Set xlBook = Nothing
Set xlApp = Nothing

WScript.Quit

and add back the ActiveWorkbook.Save and ActiveWorkbook.Close lines, you VBScript & Excel application should close correctly.