Dunno, sometimes the Dragon wins............I got some of those friendly
neighborhood automatic updates the other day and it drove my computer
nuts......I did a Restore and all went well.....don't know if the updates
caused it or just a coincidence.........but at any rate, no more automatic
updates for me.

Thanks for the feedback......and Glory Be to theimportance of backups.........

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"JB" wrote:

Thanks for the suggestions. The system restore didn't work, I'd done that.

In the end, I have a back up external hard disk, got a neighbour's laptop,
and connected the two. The backed up document opened with the normal password
and I've since recovered the file to my PC.

Why I lost the password for the Excel workbook was corrupted/changed though
is beyond me. Like I say, in between I installed Norton and some Windows
updates.