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Hi Masterminds,

 

I would appreciate if someone can help me with a most effective/simple way to convert an XLS file to XLSX. I am currently working on a project where I need to download a lot of XLS files from Oracle and later, have to work on it. The problem I am facing is, as soon as this downloaded file opens, I am getting the below warning on Excel and I am able to work if I press YES. But, I can’t do this every time neither via BOT as I am thinking it would be best to convert this file to XLSX right away after downloading it. By doing this, I can avoid this warning message as well.

 

 

I know there is a File conversion package available on Bot store but there is no option on it for this requirement.

 

Thanks in advance. 😀

Hi @agatha.christy ,

 

First of all, you can easily achieve this by using any of the inline script like Python or Java.

 

I had this exact same requirement on one of my projects and I used VBScript for the conversion. You can either use an existing VBScript file or can put the script directly in AA and execute the same.

 

Hi @Padmakumar ,

 

Perfect. In fact, I was planning to use any of the script for same as well. But I am confused which one to try with. If you don’t mind, could you please share the VB Script which you used for the conversion?

 

Thanks in Advance.😀

Hi @Padmakumar ,

 

Perfect. In fact, I was planning to use any of the script for same as well. But I am confused which one to try with. If you don’t mind, could you please share the VB Script which you used for the conversion?

 

Thanks in Advance.😀

 

Please find the below script where I passed the file path (ToBeConverted) as parameter to the script. 

 

In the Run function, I specified as shown below. 

 

 

Hope this will help.

Hi @Padmakumar ,

 

Thanks a lot for your support. It is working well and saving a lot of my effort and time now. 

😀

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