Mac not opening password protected MS Excel file

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laradillon1223
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Mac not opening password protected MS Excel file

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Password protected EXCEL FILE - IS THAT WHY IT WONT OPEN IN OPENOFFICE. I recently had to scrub my hardrive and in the process lost my WindowsOffice Suite. I downloaded OpenOffice. I have opened Word files successfully and one Excel file as a test. I have one very important excel file that is password protected and when I attempt to open it in OO it give me a bunch of commands in a window like "Data Interchange Format". Anyone know why or how I get my file back??? Thank you!!!
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Please see [Tutorial] Mac FAQ Q08/A08 which may help.
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LO 6.4.4.2, Windows 10 Home 64 bit

See the Writer Guide, the Writer FAQ, the Writer Tutorials and Writer for students.

Remember: Always save your Writer files as .odt files. - see here for the many reasons why.
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Try it with LibreOffice. The LO has a littlebit higher compatibility with the foreign file types.
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