Question

Is there a better way than to Kill() a process that archives the same result. When I Kill() an Excel process, the next time I open any Excel Worksheet, “Document Recovery” sidebar is opened, which I do not want to do.

Answer 1

Not sure if this will help with Excel running in a web browser. If you can grab the instance of Excel that’s running you can find the workbook you want to close…

try
{
    // Grab a reference to an open instance of Excel
    var oExcelApp =
        (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application)
        Marshal.GetActiveObject("Excel.Application");

    // Loop around the workbooks to find the one you want to close
    for (int i = 1; i <= oExcelApp.Workbooks.Count; i++)
    {
        if (oExcelApp.Workbooks[i].Name == "requiredname")
            oExcelApp.Workbooks[i].Close(Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing);

    }

    // Clear up...
    Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(oExcelApp);

}
catch(Exception ex)
{
   // Something went wrong... 
}