Hi All! I've had similar issues with XLSM files and found that increasing the timeout in the code stages was sufficient. However, it could be that my file is in a different location. I move my file to the local user downloads folder first, then open, modify, save and close before moving it back to a network file share. If your file is not local to the bot workstation, can you try moving it there first and see if that alleviates some of the lag? Network traffic varies constantly so eliminating this variable might be just enough to get the files to respond in a more reasonable amount of time.
Hope this helps!
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Diane Sanzone
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