HELP: can no longer open protected 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.

David,
Have you looked at the properties of the file to see if someone changed
the security settings there?
Otherwise, sometimes you can get lucky if you copy the file to another
location or email it to yourself and resave it to the desktop. It has
a tendency of tricking the computer and releasing those types of
errors. You may even want to try opening the email from another
computer. Best of luck,
Jay

[email protected] wrote:
> 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.