does he know the password? if so then you can get 1-2-3 free from a lot of places, might be an idea to get it and install on one pc just for this exercise. otherwise you probably will have to get a password cracker.
Cheers
~M

>Hi all,
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>My boss just came to me with a problem. He has many old Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets that are password-protected. We no longer have 1-2-3, and haven't for a long time. He now needs access to these old spreadsheets, and tried to open them in Excel, but since they're passworded, he get the following message:
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>Cannot open protected file
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>Is there a way around this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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>Thanks!
>
>John