HELP: Can no longer open excel file

[Lou82]

I have an important excel file on my machine that I can no longer open. When I double click on it it says "cannot open file ".xls" it says something about me not having proper permissions and if I click OK the next box indicates the file is in either read only mode or encrypted.

The file is encrypted and is password protected. This is a stand alone PC, its not on the network. I did create the file.

I tried unencrypting the file but I get a failure error.

I really hope the file is not corrupt, it is very important

Any help would be apprecaited.

[bsrcmt]

I know that this is an old thread but I can't believe no one was able to help.

I am currently having this very same problem with several files. There is no encryption on the files that I am aware of. Can anyone shed some light on a way to get past the read-only/encryption error? I have tried (unsuccessfully) to rename the files, copy and paste the files to a new location, scan the files for viruses/errors, and email the files to a coworker. All attempts have failed.

[royUK]

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