Can't open protected sheets

Had to reinstall my system (OS 10.3)
and now my proctecte excel sheets (Excel Mac 2004) won't open. I get the
message:
This workbook has been password protected with an encryption scheme not
available in this region. This workbook cannot be opened

Only work around so far is to open in OS 9 with an old Excel version
any other ideas ?

This sounds very strange...

Have you tried to save the file in Excel 5 format and then open in Excel
2004?




On 1/13/05 10:47 PM, in article
4A5EB7C8-FC5E-46E5-8AC4-70A59E02B09F.TakeThisOut@microsoft.com, "Laurent Imbault"
<LaurentImbault.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

 > Had to reinstall my system (OS 10.3)
 > and now my proctecte excel sheets (Excel Mac 2004) won't open. I get the
 > message:
 > This workbook has been password protected with an encryption scheme not
 > available in this region. This workbook cannot be opened
 >
 > Only work around so far is to open in OS 9 with an old Excel version
 > any other ideas ?<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->