How to stop a robot when file is opened by others?

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Hi,

I want to stop a robot’s execution when the robot tries to open an excel file
placed on a shared server which is already opened by someone else.

Right now, when the excel file that the robot tries to open is already opened,
the robot automatically makes a copy of the file and starts writing into the copied file.
I don’t want the robot to do that, I’d like the robot to stop when it faces this problem.

Somebody have a clue about how I can solve this?
Thanks

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Before opening excel, use kill process activity and name as excel, so that if any open excel will be closed.

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If you use workbook activities instead of excel activities, if the excel is already open by someone it will throw an error “Write cell : The process cannot access the file ‘Filepath.xlsx’ because it is being used by another process.” and execution will stop.

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