Passwords in workbooks

Hi there,
need help to a problem in WAD:
When exports reports from WAD to my desktop (via excel) and try to open it, it ask me for password to open the excel, but it only happens with some of it...
what i want is that never ask me for password when open that...
any ideas? is it something from PFCG??
thanks
GPC

GPC,
it could be that when you export to excel the icons used in the report are also exported like the hierarchy symbols etc. These are linked to MIME.
What you can do is enable anonymous access to the MIME repository in SICF and see if the password prompt comes up.

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