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If you see The file couldn't open in protected view error while opening Microsoft Excel, the fixes listed in this post will help you.

Select your XLR file and click "Open." Excel should now open your file, and you can save it as an Excel file with an XLS or XLSX file extension, for example.

Open your document in Acrobat (available on macOS and Windows), go to Tools > Scan & OCR > Recognize Text. Once the text has been catalogued, go to Tools > Export PDF and export as an Excel file.