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how to remove enable editing on excel files

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Hi.

I am working on excel files . these files are downloaded from from portal. To work on these file i have enable/ remove" Enable Editing"  .

 

How can i do so  in power automate?

 

regards

 

 

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  • Nick_Nikol Profile Picture
    24 on at

    Hello mraza!

     

    I faced the same issue quite often, what I usually do is have an action that clicks that button through a UI element.

    Practically its the same functionality as how you'd normally use a selector.

     

    Alternatively you can use OCR or even set up an error handling on the first action that edits excel which goes to a subflow and then reruns that action.

     

    Hope the above helps and if it does, let me know!

    Nick

     

    You can also set that action so on fail the process still continues in case the file doesn't need to be edited.

     

  • momlo Profile Picture
    1,527 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    You can configure behavior of the protected view, this is Excel feature that protects your from unsafe locations/files

    see here:

    https://www.automateexcel.com/how-to/protected-view-enable-editing/

  • mraza Profile Picture
    55 on at

    Thanks for answering.  I tried to do with recording and its works.

  • mraza Profile Picture
    55 on at

    Thanks @momlo for help.

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