Go get Open Office from http://www.openoffice.org and see if you can open, then remove the password and then save the file.
Try again with the newer Excel.
Bob
Using Excel 9.0 on XP, I get "unable to read file" on several password protected, but not encrypted, files. I was able to link the cells to another workbook to save the data on all but two using "A1=<file name>!A1. I get the same message when I try to link to these two files and can't get any data from them. Several files on the same computer are opening without the assigned password and contain only jumbled text. Any ideas?

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