You see the "Permission for this workbook is currently restricted" warning message instead of the workbook cells when you open an Excel 2003 workbook in Excel 2004 for Mac (841423)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac
- Microsoft Office Excel 2003
SYMPTOMS When you open a Microsoft Office Excel 2003 workbook in
Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac, instead of the workbook cells you may see the
following warning message: Permission for this workbook
is currently restricted. This workbook can only be opened by using Microsoft
Office 2003 or later. You can request the author of the workbook to send a copy
that can be read using the Rights Management Add-on for Internet Explorer.
Learn more about documents with restricted permission If
you click Unprotect on the Tools menu,
nothing happens. You can still see the warning message. However, if you save
the document after you use the Excel 2004 for Mac Unprotect feature, the
contents of the article are deleted except for the warning message. The file
size of the document is reduced to less than 32 kilobytes (KB).
Opening the unprotected document by using Excel 2003 will not restore
the document. CAUSE This problem occurs because Office 2004 for Mac does not
support the Information Rights Management (IRM) feature of Microsoft Office
2003. When you try to unprotect the workbook, the IRM-protected text is deleted
because this is the expected behavior for IRM-protected
workbooks.STATUSMicrosoft
has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed
in the"Applies to" section.
| Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 11/17/2005 |
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| Keywords: | kbprb kbnofix KB841423 kbAudEndUser kbAudITPRO |
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