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HELP: can no longer open excel file in XP
All,
I have a 1.3 meg spreadsheet file in excel (office XP suite). I used the password protection feature to keep others who share my PC from being able to open the file at will. Worked fine for a few weeks. Now when I try to open the file I get the standard message saying file cannot be accessed... may be read-only... server may be busy.... NONE of which are true. Excel does not even ask for the password -- never gets that far. Other excel file open just fine. How do I force excel to open this file? Is there a switch I can include with the filename that includes the password ? can I extract the data? This is a very important file. Any help will be GREATLY appreciated. TIA, David PS., This is my first time trying to open since installing IE 7 beta 3. |
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can no longer open excel file in XP
HI
Have you checked the attributes of the file with file properties ? N10 wrote in message oups.com... All, I have a 1.3 meg spreadsheet file in excel (office XP suite). I used the password protection feature to keep others who share my PC from being able to open the file at will. Worked fine for a few weeks. Now when I try to open the file I get the standard message saying file cannot be accessed... may be read-only... server may be busy.... NONE of which are true. Excel does not even ask for the password -- never gets that far. Other excel file open just fine. How do I force excel to open this file? Is there a switch I can include with the filename that includes the password ? can I extract the data? This is a very important file. Any help will be GREATLY appreciated. TIA, David PS., This is my first time trying to open since installing IE 7 beta 3. |
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HELP: can no longer open excel file in XP
YES, I have checked the attributes using file properties. The only
attribute set is archive. The file still will not open if I uncheck this attribute. Any additional ideas would be GREATLY appreciated. The file was last accessed 10 days ago. TIA |
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can no longer open excel file in XP
Can you make a copy of the file?
-- Tim Williams Palo Alto, CA wrote in message oups.com... All, I have a 1.3 meg spreadsheet file in excel (office XP suite). I used the password protection feature to keep others who share my PC from being able to open the file at will. Worked fine for a few weeks. Now when I try to open the file I get the standard message saying file cannot be accessed... may be read-only... server may be busy.... NONE of which are true. Excel does not even ask for the password -- never gets that far. Other excel file open just fine. How do I force excel to open this file? Is there a switch I can include with the filename that includes the password ? can I extract the data? This is a very important file. Any help will be GREATLY appreciated. TIA, David PS., This is my first time trying to open since installing IE 7 beta 3. |
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If the file corrupt and Excel cannot open it, many report OpenOffice (free
download) is successful. NickHK wrote in message oups.com... All, I have a 1.3 meg spreadsheet file in excel (office XP suite). I used the password protection feature to keep others who share my PC from being able to open the file at will. Worked fine for a few weeks. Now when I try to open the file I get the standard message saying file cannot be accessed... may be read-only... server may be busy.... NONE of which are true. Excel does not even ask for the password -- never gets that far. Other excel file open just fine. How do I force excel to open this file? Is there a switch I can include with the filename that includes the password ? can I extract the data? This is a very important file. Any help will be GREATLY appreciated. TIA, David PS., This is my first time trying to open since installing IE 7 beta 3. |
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HELP: can no longer open excel file in XP
Yes, I can make a copy and I have tried Open Office with no success. I
tried another excel repair utility that reported an error in the file header but, was unable to repair as the file is password protected. Is there any way to recover or repair a damaged file header? TIA. --David |
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HELP: can no longer open excel file in XP
If the data is in tables and you don't mind losing the formating etc, you
<<may be able pull the info out with ADO. But given your lack off success with other methods, I'd be surprised. As for repairing the header, you're welcome to try and understand the Excel file format and poke around the bits. Frankly, if Excel, OpenOffice, your repair utility et al are unable to deal with the corruption, I wouldn't hold out too much hope. But it depends on how much you value of data. NickHK groups.com... Yes, I can make a copy and I have tried Open Office with no success. I tried another excel repair utility that reported an error in the file header but, was unable to repair as the file is password protected. Is there any way to recover or repair a damaged file header? TIA. --David |
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HELP: can no longer open excel file in XP
Indeed. It appears I am SOL. Thanks for the input.
--David |
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HELP: can no longer open excel file in XP
Indeed. It appears I am SOL. Thanks for the input.
--David |
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