Excel has two different workbook protections that require a password. At my company most files are opened as read-only unless you supply a password. Using the Excel application scope activity and providing it the password doesn’t seem to work. It seems like no data is passed to excel, so nothing wi…

@Dave , this uses “Start process” instead of Excel scope, but it works for me. You’ll have to modify the path to Excel to suit your system. I would think once you get the workbook open you can go from there. Please let me know if it works for you. regards, burque505 Excel Password.zip (163.9 KB)

Open Excel document that requires a password to modify

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balupad14 (Balamurugan) March 29, 2018, 9:53am 12

Hi @lola,
Check this will get the fix

https://forum.uipath.com/t/uipath-script-activities/21095?u=balupad14

Regards
Balamurugan.S

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