unable to access excel spreadsheet

L

Long

I am totally stumped and need help.

My husband receives e-mail every week from his office with an excel
spreadsheet attachment. He has always been able to open it with no problems,
but the last several weeks he has been receiving the following message when
attempting to download the file: Filename.xls cannot be accessed. The file
may be read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only location. Or
the server the document is stored on may not be responding.

We can open other spreadsheets from other people. We have not changed
anything on our computer lately and we have excel 2003.The frustrating thing
is that it seems as though the file is not corrupted because other people
from my
husbands company can access the same file. We also know that we have the
same version of Excel. I am at a total loss and my husband is ready to
throw the computer out the window.


Help! Lisa
 
D

db

you might try to get
them sent in a zip file.

encapsulating them inside
a zip file, insulates the
files through security.

zipcentral is a freeware
that has an easy user interface.
i would suggest to install
it on both ends.

hopefully, zipping
the files will work.

- db
I am totally stumped and need help.

My husband receives e-mail every week from his office with an excel
spreadsheet attachment. He has always been able to open it with no problems,
but the last several weeks he has been receiving the following message when
attempting to download the file: Filename.xls cannot be accessed. The file
may be read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only location. Or
the server the document is stored on may not be responding.

We can open other spreadsheets from other people. We have not changed
anything on our computer lately and we have excel 2003.The frustrating thing
is that it seems as though the file is not corrupted because other people
from my
husbands company can access the same file. We also know that we have the
same version of Excel. I am at a total loss and my husband is ready to
throw the computer out the window.


Help! Lisa
 

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