Time Machine locked all Excel files. Help?

I have had Macs for many years but have not used Time Machine until yesterday. I turned on Time Machine for the first time and did a back-up last night. Today, I cannot open any Excel file on my computer as they all appear to be read-only.
I am using a 27" iMac with Mac OS 10.8.2. I copied an Excel file to my 13" MacBook and it opened fine. I have since turned off Time Machine but still cannot open any Excel files on my 27" iMac.
Can you help?

I realize this is an older thread but I just ran into this issue with a restore from Time Machine backup on a clean install Mac OS X 10.9.
It seems that the issue has nothing whatsoever to do with the file in question or the permissions or the ownership of that file and everything to do with hidden files. If Excel saved a temporary file then you will not be able to edit the file until you delete the temp file - which is hidden.
So what you want to do is the following:
Open a Terminal Session and paste in:          defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool YES
The paste in:       killall Finder
Go to the folder where the offending file is and find the copy of that file that is prefixed with ~$ and delete it
Then past in:      defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool NO
The paste in:       killall Finder
or you could leave hidden files visible for a time until you clean up everything - then turn em off when you get cleaned up.

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