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$FilePath = "D:\path\book1.xlsx"
$SheetName = "Sheet1" 
$objExcel = New-Object -ComObject "Excel.Application"
$WorkBook = $objExcel.Workbooks.Open($FilePath)

I am using Powershell 5 to read an Excel file, Office 365 based Excel is installed on my windows 10 machine.

The first statement itself fails. What should I look to fix it?

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  • Please edit your post and include the error message, this will tell us what the issue is :) Commented Jan 8, 2019 at 14:50

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Possibly you have a 64-bit Powershell session trying to access a 32-bit COM object.

To check this, try running a 32-bit Powershell (C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell)

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