The CreateOLEExcelScope opens an Excel file and provides access to its workbooks and sheets.
{{Attention|Only files from Excel 97-2003 (*.xls) is supported yet!}}
=Description=
| Result|| {{Boolean_MSDN}}|| Out || True if successful, false if failed
|- align="left"
| Tables|| List<{{[[OLETableDescriptor}}]]>|| Out || not used
|}
===Usage===
This activity is used to open an Excel document as an OLE compliant data source. It is a nestable activity, which means it can host any amount of sub-activities that will be processed sequentially. The hosted activities are typically [[Activity:CreateOLETableScope (Activity)|CreateOLETableScope]] activities, either as direct children but also wrapped within looping activities like ForEach or While.
{{Attention|On 32 bit platforms only .xls files can be processed, whereas on 64 bit platforms also new Excel extensions are possible.}}
=Example=
The CreateOLEExcelScope activity with a workflow and its arguments.
{{Hint|Check '''ContainsHeader''' if the Excel document has uses a header row!}}[[File:UI_Activity_CreateOLEExcelScope.png|border|CreateOLEExcelScope]][[File:UI_Activity_CreateOLEExcelScope_Arguments.png|border|CreateOLEExcelScope]]
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* [[Activity:CreateOLETableScope (Activity)]]
[[Category:OLE|CreateOLEExcelScope (Activity)]]