Closing Excel

After opening and showing Excel, let's close it (I know it sounds lame to close it so soon after opening Excel, but bear with me for now; we shall do the interesting stuff, such as reading the Excel file into a collection, in a short while):

  1. Drag another Action stage and drop it beneath the Show Stage. Assign it the following property values:
    • Name: Close Instance
    • Business Object: MS Excel VBO
    • Action: Close Instance
  2. Notice that the Inputs section contains two fields: handle and Save Changes. In the handle input field, drag and drop the handle data item. The Save Changes field gives us the option to save any changes that may have been made to the Excel file. Since we didn't make any updates to the spreadsheet, leave the

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