Nice!
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Party on Wayne!Does E10 not have just a copy and/or a copy with headers? Would that work?
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Yes, good point. It sure does have those features. 
And they do seem to still work thankfully.
But you know users, canât live with them, canât live without themâŚLOL If they are used to a quick and easy feature that will automatically open Excel directly from Epicor without them having to first open an Excel instance and then copy and paste the data to that instance. Well then it is Armageddon if it doesnât work. At least thatâs been my experience. But yes, those features are there and they do seem to still work so thatâs good! 
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Great workaround Heather!
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I only have so many of these to hand out in a week, but, that was some grade A troubleshooting and workaround-fu. Nicely done 
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Anyone who quotes Kermit the Frog in public is aces in MY bookâŚ
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Also, my experience is that when you Open With Excel it preserves the column formatting where as a simple Copy (With or without headers) doesnât preserve the formatting as well. Dates in Copy/Paste appear as 2/5/2018 0:00 and numeric text is treated like numbersâŚ
Mark W.
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LOL!!! Wow! Thanks @aidacra!!!
Iâd like to thank the academy, and my parents, and my runaway dog, Daisy May, and my Aunt Lulu who couldnât be here tonight because her bunions were flaring upâŚfor believing in me. That I could bumble my way through and get frustrated with my Alt+Print Screen feature and accidentally hold down the Alt key just long enough to trigger a solution to all the worlds problems. LOL!!! 
BTW, can I trade these stars in on some Epicor products?
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Hey now⌠why does @hkeric.wci have 5 likes on his post!? Are yaâll trying to tell me something? Iâm gonna develop a complex here⌠
LOL
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So I got curious as to who is at âFaultâ here (Excel or Epicor) and why does @ERPSysAdmin workaround worksâŚ
Ran Proc Mon (Handy Little Utility)
http://jcg.pictures/gdgfJP1X8Sc.png
Looks like our friendly Epicor creates the Excel file ⌠and then unceremoniously deletes its 
Further investigation yields that Epicor is perhaps not completely at Fault. Being âGood Citizensâ since they are creating a âTemp Fileâ they register an Event (intent) to be notified when Excel is Done with it (when Excel Closes) and then they run a CleanUp Utility to delete said temp file. Kudos EPICOR!!
The issue I think arises IF thereâs already an open instance of Excel, basically Excel on the Microsoft side is âCleverâ and says Hey no need to open a new one of those, weâve got one already and hands off the âHandlingâ of the Request to the existing Excel instance, which causes our newly started Process to âExitâ which then Epicor interprets as âClean Up Isle 6â
Heatherâs work around , works because holding down Alt tells excel that you want a âSpecialâ excel instance and thus Microsoft scoffs at you for wasting resources and lets you carry on your merry way with your ânewâ Epicor Instance.
This is all inference from looking at the code and process behavior but I think thatâs where the issue is at, Iâm curious if this can be replicated if there is absolutely positively no Excel.exe process already running⌠(I wasnât able to make it happen except when there is already an excel process running), but it could also be that Microsoft or Windows is firing the Exited event earlyâŚ
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Unless youâre allergic to awesomesauce, you shouldnât get a complex! 
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Oh my gosh @josecgomez! Really Cool to see what you observed and why the Alt - Open New Excel instance works!!! 
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Ok here is a âpermanent work aroundâ
Aparently Microsoft got yelled at for this already.
Simply add the attached Key (Registry Key) to your Machine (note this is for Office 2016 and please donât take my word for this, test your crap before you break your crap
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Excel\Options]
"FirstRun"=dword:00000000
"MsoTbCust"=dword:00000008
"Options5"=dword:00000080
"OptionFormat"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00
"Pos"="2226,180,1440,759"
"ShowLensTooltip"=dword:00000000
"DDECleaned"=dword:00000001
"StickyPtX"=dword:000003a0
"StickyPtY"=dword:0000021c
"Maximized"=dword:00000003
"DefaultSheetR2L"=dword:00000000
"UseSystemSeparators"=dword:00000001
"ThousandsSeparator"=","
"DecimalSeparator"="."
"DisableMergeInstance"=dword:00000001
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Awesome!! that worked! but⌠would that cause out-of-memory issue in Excel in a long run?
If you plan on running hundreds of these at the same time⌠yes but not likely.