Excel File open notification.

renzosilv has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I would like to access through perl the information contained on the alerts of an Excel file. For example when I try to open my file which is networked I get an alert if someone has it open. I would like to retrieve the user name of the person who has it open. I have been looking everywhere for a solution to this problem to no avail. Any help would be really appreciated it. Thanks in advance!

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Re: Excel File open notification. by davies (Monsignor) on Feb 07, 2011 at 15:34 UTC
As I told you in reply to Accessing Excel alerts, you can't capture Excel alerts. Nothing has changed since then.	[reply]
Re: Excel File open notification. by Anonymous Monk on Feb 07, 2011 at 15:20 UTC
See http://live.sysinternals.com/handle.exe	[reply]
Re^2: Excel File open notification. by renzosilv (Novice) on Feb 07, 2011 at 15:31 UTC
Thanks, Unfortunately I don't have the rights necessary to run this in the folder which I am trying to retrieve the names from.	[reply]
Re^3: Excel File open notification. by Anonymous Monk on Feb 07, 2011 at 15:43 UTC
In that case, there is no way you can retrieve the username	[reply]