Open office worked great. Opened it up no problem. Removed password and it
re-opened in Excel just fine.

Thank you very much for the help.

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

If you opened and save on a USB flash drive it might be that the file is
corrupt, that happened quite often with files opened and saved on floppies
due to the way Excel creates temp files etc. One thing you might want to try
is to download open office and try to open it using that program


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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom



"jetta878" wrote in message
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Yes. It's not checked.

"David Biddulph" wrote:

Have you looked at the file properties, using Windows Explorer? Is the
read-only attribute set?
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David Biddulph

"jetta878" wrote in message
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Hi all.

I have an excel 2003 document that cannot seem to open. I know the
password
is right but when I put the password in, I get a message that says:

''Divers.xls' cannot be accessed. The file may be read only, or you may
be
trying to access a read-only location. Or, the server the document is
stored
on may not be responding'

I'm trying to open the file from a USB drive, but I get the same error
even
if I copy it to the desktop and try to open it. There are other
password
protected .xls files on the drive and they open fine. Please help.