On Sat, 4 May 2024, Michael Ewan wrote:
I have come across this before but it was a DRM (or as M$ calls it IRM) problem. It basically makes the document read only, you cannot save it or even save as. You might try opening it directly with LO Calc, or write a Python script to open the file with Pandas read_excel(), as I was forced to do for the very same reasons you have, the data should be in a database.
Michael, If I don't have a translation by Ted I'll write to the manager who sent the link and ask him to remove the password(s). Thanks, Rich