Alan: It's only been 25 years since I've tried office automation, but, ...
Why are you using XLSRCEXTERNAL? I may be reading the MS page wrong, but have you tried using xlSrcQuery since you're specifying an OLEDB connection string? On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 6:47 AM Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote: > > Any Excel automation mavens in the audience? I'm trying to automate what > Excel does when you do 'Get Data' from Text\CSV via PowerShell. I've recorded > that process as a macro and the code in the linked Gist is attempting to > replicate the macro VBA. > > However no matter what I do it throws a 1426 COM error '800a03ec: Unknown COM > status code' when attempting to add to the Workbook ListObjects collection. > > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/excel.listobjects.add > > Probably something stupid - can anyone see any issue with the code ? > > https://gist.github.com/AlanPBourke/091e4aa607239fa69d5f544e31bc958b > > -- > Alan Bourke > alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: https://leafe.com/archives This message: https://leafe.com/archives/byMID/cacw6n4vudgxewq0+_oqdw1y9qlw7x0yhhs5-e3q7eg_1nbb...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.

