Hi. Kind of an old thread but I wanted to chime in with my similar issue. I found the issue and a work around for this same problem, maybe it'll help others. I narrowed down my problem to the “Attach Instance” stage in the MS Word VBO. A little background, I use attach instance action in order to check if word is launched or not. It never fails on initial launch or on subsequent loops. However, there’s a scenario where a certain error occurs that requires me to kill word and re-launch it using the same page that has worked consistently. That’s when I get the same error as stated. Attaching word when not launched should throw a regular error that’s easily handled. For some reason, that’s not the case after killing word. By stepping into the MS Word VBO action, I noticed that the handle gets cleared as the action is launched, so when the object attempts to access the handle, there is none, and throws this ActiveX error. My solution, create a flag that’s set to true when word is killed, and add a choice stage to check for this prior to the “Attach Instance stage”. When the flag is true, this stage is bypassed and goes straight to launching Word, thus avoiding this strange issue (or possible bug).
