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chicks
Regular Contributor
6 years ago

TC12 attempt to work with closed (excel) driver after updating to Office 365

  This has been working for over 5 years, but started failing after I updated to office 365. Following the update,  I can no longer run testcomplete from my laptop in this particular project. I...
  • chicks's avatar
    chicks
    6 years ago

    so although test complete claims to be a 64 bit application,  when I added the driver for 32 bit testcomplete after removing the 64 bit driver, it works as it has been.

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chicks
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64 bit Office / Excel  and 64 bit test complete .  Am double checking the link now......

chicks's avatar
chicks
Regular Contributor
6 years ago

so although test complete claims to be a 64 bit application,  when I added the driver for 32 bit testcomplete after removing the 64 bit driver, it works as it has been.

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    chicks
    Regular Contributor
    6 years ago

    Does NOT work as it has been.  But I can read .xls files without getting the error.

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    tristaanogre
    Esteemed Contributor
    6 years ago

    TC 12.10 is not 64-bit, it's only 32-bit.

    Also, Microsoft had done some strange patching a while back which, for the JET engine, required some necessary downloads.  If you set ACE to true, you shouldn't need it but you do need to make sure that you have a 32-bit driver for excel installed.