My customer gets Excel files from the business, some of them are password-protected even if they shouldn’t. In that case, the goal is to detect this and generates an error report, otherwise the robot is blocked. Consequently I would like to detect if an Excel file is password-protected before tryin…

What about a workbook read range (just for the sake of checking the file) inside a try catch? Inside the exception area use something like: If - exception.ToString.Contains(“password”) - assign / write File is encrypted, or just set boolean var as true like password = True

How to detect if an Excel file is password-protected

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