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Make Excel workbook read-only

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Posted on by Rogerroger

Hi!

Is it possible to make a flow that will set a Excel Workbook to open as read-only (protected)?

Ref: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/set-or-clear-read-only-status-d2dd74b2-2756-4cfb-8ee0-3c7977c80c8b

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  • David_MA Profile Picture
    David_MA 14,427 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    I have not tried this, but I have the following bookmarked in case I need to do what you need to do: Power Automate and SharePoint Permissions - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com)

     

    I think this should work for you. Another option you can look into is writing an Office Script for Excel to lock it, which I don't know if it is possible, but I found a post on the topic: Office Scripts - Workbook & worksheet protection - Excel Off The Grid. If you can create the script, you can run it from Power Automate.

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