Shared Files May Open as Read Only
This article was previously published under Q161475 On This PageSYMPTOMS
When you open a file that was created in Microsoft Excel version 7.0, you
may receive a Password dialog box containing one of the following error
messages:
In Microsoft Excel 97
A shared list from Microsoft Excel 95 must be opened Read-Only.
To edit the workbook in Microsoft Excel 97, click OK, then click Save As on the file menu and save the workbook with a new name. You can then save the new workbook as a Microsoft Excel 97 shared workbook, if you want. For more information, click Help. In Microsoft Excel 5.0
'<FILENAME.XLS>' is reserved by XL 95 Users. Open Read Only!
Enter password for write access, or open read only. where <FILENAME.XLS> is the name of the file that you are opening. CAUSE
This behavior occurs when you open a file that was saved as a shared file
in Microsoft Excel 7.0. When you turn on the Multi-User Editing
feature in a file in Microsoft Excel 7.0, you are not able to open the
file
with read-write access in Microsoft Excel 5.0 or Microsoft Excel 97.
MORE INFORMATION
When you receive the Password dialog box in Microsoft Excel 5.0 after
opening a file that was saved as a shared file in Microsoft Excel 7.0, if
you enter a password, whether the file has a password or not, you receive
the error message "Incorrect password."
In Microsoft Excel versions 5.0 and 97, when you open a file that was created in Microsoft Excel version 7.0 that was not saved as a shared file, the file opens normally; no dialog box appears. NOTE: Microsoft Excel versions 5.0 and 7.0 use the same file format. Microsoft Excel 97 uses a different format. APPLIES TO
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