Reported by manish on 2015-02-26 23:49
In an excel workbook that has a sheet with protected and unprotected cells, like the one attached here, there is no way to read the content in the protected cells. I tried reading with the regular cursor, review cursor and object navigation - with the simple review mode enabled as well as disabled.
Will try to find a machine with excel 2013 and add to this description if the behavior is any different there.