Here are multiple ways to unlock greyed-out, unclickable, or unavailable menu options in Microsoft Excel on Windows PC. Sure to help you!

You can edit and save Excel 2003 files in Excel 2007. While you are using a file in compatibility mode, grayed-out menu choices indicate that the feature is unavailable in Excel 2003.

From the File menu, choose Save As. In Excel 2007, click the Office button. From the Save As Type control, choose SYLK (Symbolic Link) (*.slk), as shown in Figure F.

While there is a way for you to open two Excel workbooks at the same time, you can also open multiple spreadsheets in separate windows. Learn how!

If you lost work to an Excel workbook because of the program crashed or because of an unexpected shutdown, Excel actually has a built-in way to recover your file or the changes made to a file.

Microsoft Excel has several features designed to help you recover unsaved versions of files and prevent data loss.