Does Get Info still exist? I needd to changee a document from Read Only so I can

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Does Get Info still exist? I needd to changee a document from Read Only so I can save it In the past, during visits to the Apple Genius Bar, their techs showed me Get Info where I could change documents that were somehow saved as read only into documents that I could make changes to. Everything on my computer is mine -- I work from home, so am not in an office where documents are shared between people and only certain people have access. I don't even knoow why this is Reead-Only suddenly. I have an Excel spreadsheet I created years ago that I need to make some updates to. I am not able to save the changes UNLESS I CHANGE the name of the document which I don't want to do. Is there still a way to bring up Get Info in Office applications and change things from Read Only? I thought it was Command-I, but all that's happening is it turns on Italics. I'm not having luck with Option-I either. Please help me! Thanks!

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One key ingredient is how many "years ago" the file was created as well as by which version of the program. [I'm assuming the file has a .xls filename extension.] Because of security features implemented by more recent version of the software some files are automatically considered potentially dangerous.

The first thing I'd try is to simply run Disk Utility to repair disk permissions on your HD, then Restart your Mac. See if the condition persists.

If it still opens as Read-Only perhaps this will resolve the problem;

If that doesn't provide the desired result, try doing the samee thing buut give the new file a different name & save it to a different folder. Iff that workss you can always rename the file laterr.!

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