https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Closing-Workbooks/m-p/85028#M36085 If you use 'Open Workbook', it is opening the workbook. It's just invisible. The way I pretty much always do it is in this order: Create Instance Open Workbook Get Collection Close Instance You do not need to specifically close the workbook since Close Instance will take care of that for you. Thu, 28 Feb 2019 03:02:00 GMT david.l.morris 2019-02-28T03:02:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Closing-Workbooks/m-p/85027#M36084 Hey team, thanking you guys in advance for your help!  I want to extract a cell value from an excel workbook without having to open it, so I am using the "Open Workbook" action in the excel vbo.  That does the trick but then my question is, do I have to use the "Close Workbook" action? Thank you! Thu, 28 Feb 2019 01:07:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Closing-Workbooks/m-p/85027#M36084 IngridBardales 2019-02-28T01:07:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Closing-Workbooks/m-p/85028#M36085 If you use 'Open Workbook', it is opening the workbook. It's just invisible. The way I pretty much always do it is in this order: Create Instance Open Workbook Get Collection Close Instance You do not need to specifically close the workbook since Close Instance will take care of that for you. Thu, 28 Feb 2019 03:02:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Closing-Workbooks/m-p/85028#M36085 david.l.morris 2019-02-28T03:02:00Z