Greetings--

I am somewhat familiar with macros and VBA.
Last night I received an excel file (containing a receipt) from a local
government agency. When I tried to open it, Excel said it contained
macros. I made sure my virus software was up to date and scanned it--no
viruses.

I tried to open it and I selected disable macros (so I could look at
what the macros would do anyway. Excel said the file had Excel 4.0
macros, which could not be disabled. So I opened it with macros
enabled, and looked at the names of the macros--looks like the macros
(about ten names) are to format the spreadsheet and put all the payment
data in the correct cells. So I selected visual basic editor and tried
to open a macro and a message box came up "invoice.xlt, password
required". Any clues what that's all about? Why is a file (assume
that's a template supplied by the .xls file) on my computer password
protected?

Jim