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p-m-med759
Aug 26, 2021Copper Contributor
Excel password protected - how to unprotect
When I open excel - it tells me that it's password protected though I have tried using online suggestions to unprotect this. It says" >>> Is reserved by... enter password for write access, or open r...
p-m-med759
Aug 26, 2021Copper Contributor
Thank you for responding. I tried this and all online suggestions. eventually i just did a save as and renamed it - this solved the issue. It was stuck on this password and would not remove it no matter what. It must have been corrupted.
The save as is the solution for anyone experiencing this issue.
JKPieterse
Aug 26, 2021Silver Contributor
That is rather unexpected, perhaps you opened the file from a read-only location?