[yaohui]

I have an Excel document that suddenly today won't open. I get a "Cannot access read-only document abc.xls" message when trying to open it. I then get a "cannot access abc.xls" message. I use this file almost daily (yesterday was the last day) and have never saved this file as "read-only". I do not have this file backedup and is my only copy. I has all my accounting files on it.

Other XLS files I saved yesterday load fine. Any ideas on a fix?
I've seen others with this problem, but cannot find a good solution.
I use MS Office on Mac OS10.

Your help is sooo much appreciated.

Edited by yaohui, 05 August 2006 - 08:46 AM.

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[erun]

I have almost the same exact problem... an Excel document that suddenly today won't open. I get a "Cannot access read-only document abc.xls" message when trying to open it. I then get a "cannot access abc.xls" message. I had been using this file almost daily (yesterday was the last day) and have never saved this file as "read-only". I do not have this file backed up and is my only copy. I has a very important project on it.

The initial file was created in Excel 2007 and I ran the conversion to work in Excel 2002.

I've seen others with this problem, but cannot find a good solution.
Thank you for any help!