Can't speak to whether the password is retained/works, but you have the
option on the PPC to "Save As" and select .xls, the desktop format. That
gets around the pxl conversion issue. At that point you could zip with
password, and potentially have a smaller file to e-mail from the portable.

Incidentally WM5 devices no longer use the Pocket Excel .pxl format. They
strictly use xls. Same goes for Pocket Word.

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"Bible John" wrote in message
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I just tried to open a Pocket Excel file on my Windows XP desktop and the
file could not be opened. Has anyone had any luck opening Pocket excel
files on a desktop PC without converting them?

Pocket Excel I believe is the .pxl format that the Handheld PC and the
PocketPC use.

I may want to password protect files and send them to a party that does
not have a PocketPC. Can this be done, or do I need to convert the files
to MS excel and password protect a seperate .zip file using resco File
explorer?

I cannot send any files to this party that are not password protected for
the risk is too high.


Thanks,


John

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