Check if Excel File is open

I am doing a read/write to an excel file. In order to do the write, I want to check if the file is already open somewhere else in case I need to close it. How can I do this?
Thank you!

 Accepted Answer

Kaustubha Govind
Kaustubha Govind on 7 Apr 2011

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I think fopen('all') only lists the files that were previously opened using fopen (not if the file was opened by another program). Tech Solution #1-954SDY should be what you need.

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FListOpen=fopen('all'); %get the names of the open files
ismember('myfile',FListOpen) %see if myfile is open

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