How to safely save and use a Excel workbook password in a process?

[Maxime_Bonis]

I want to use a process who needs to read an protected excel. Where can I save my password ?
Excel read activities only accept String as password properties. So I can’t use an credential asset from orchestrator because it returns SecureString. Also, I can’t directly write the password in the process because it can change and it is not a safe way.

Someone had this situation once ?

Regards,

[Arpit_Kesharwani]

@Maxime_Bonis you can convert secure string into plain text. please refer: Convert SecureString to String - Get Secured Credential

[Maxime_Bonis]

Thank you it works