Thank you Jim, your reply helped also - I am good to go! Made a physical
note to remember this in case I foget in the future (smile).

Paddler4x

"Jim Rech" wrote:

If you saved the workbook with a password using File, Save you must do a
File, Save again and remove/backspacing over the password in the General
Options dialog.

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Jim
"Paddler4x" wrote in message
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|I have an Excel 2003 workbook I created a while back and applied protection
| to it so a password must be entered to open it. I made a copy of the doc
| with different name that I am trying to unprotect to transfer to a Windows
| Mobile Smartphone so that I can open it on it, will not allow protected
| documents to be viewed. So I followed the following steps:
|
| Open the protected workbook.
| On the Tools menu, point to Protection, and then click Unprotect Workbook.
|
| HOWEVER, there is no unprotect option. How do I remove protection on this
| document copy.