Excel not launching using excelreport.fp

Hello,

I have an odd bug. I am using excelreport.fp to open an Excel application for reading.

This works 95 percent of the time, except every now and then Excel will freeze or hang up.

I have to close my application and manually terminate the Excel process in order to recover.

I found the issue by stoping during debug and the code is stuck on Excel function.

I am trying to reproduce the error now, but it decided to work today. But I know the hang up is in one of these lines from a past debug:

    ExcelRpt_ApplicationNew (VFALSE, &applicationHandle);    
    ExcelRpt_WorkbookOpen (applicationHandle, supp_language.filepath, &workbookHandle);
    ExcelRpt_GetWorksheetFromIndex (workbookHandle, 1, &worksheetHandle);

I am pretty sure the issue occurs and freezes on WorkbookOpen, but since I can't repeat it on demand I can't be 100% sure.

Anyone else experience issues opening Excel using excelreport.fp?

Am I perhaps just using Excel before it is ready?

Is there an Excel timeout to generate a failure so that I am not stuck in an infinite loop?

Thanks.