well i don`t know how to thank you.God bless you The problem has been licked.

"CLR" wrote:

Is it that you have EXCEL on the pendrive?.....if so, it's usually not
transferrable from computer to computer as it must be registered in the C
drive when being installed.........

If it's just a regular .xls file, try to open it on some other computer to
determine if the file is corrupt, or maybe of a newer version of Excel than
your computer has.

hth
Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"sax" wrote:

my files are stored on a pendrive,i have done what you said but,the problem
persists


"Gord Dibben" wrote:

sax

Where are the files stored?

Hard drive or removable media?

If the latter, try copying to Hard drive then open.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:11:01 -0800, sax wrote:

Thanks for the concern Sean.well when i click on the excel icon,there is an
error message,saying `the file you are trying to open,is either a read only
file or
is corrupt`

"Sean Timmons" wrote:

What happens when you try to open them?

"sax" wrote:

I don`t know what hapened but i can`t open my excel files.I have fiddled with
all the options in the properties section but they won`t just open.Can
someone help?
I am using Office 2004.