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WorkbookSettings.WriteProtection.ValidatePassword() method, which you can use to check whether the given password to modify is correct or not.
You can assign Password to open and Password to modify while creating your workbooks in Microsoft Excel. Please see this screenshot, which shows the interface that Microsoft Excel provides to specify these passwords.
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The following sample code loads the source Excel file. It has a password to open of 1234 and a password to modify of 5678. The code first checks if 567 is the correct password to modify, which returns false, and then checks if 5678 is the password to modify, which returns true.
Here is the console output of the above sample code after loading the source Excel file.
Is 567 correct Password to modify: False
Is 5678 correct Password to modify: True
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