Password protection

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A colleague of mine has a problem with password protected
worksheets. The sheets were created in Excel 97 and
password protected. Some time ago she was upgraded to
Excel 2000. Yesterday, she tried to open one of the sheets
and it gave her the normal error that the password entered
was wrong, and she is adamant that the password is right.

It is unclear whether the problem started when she was
upgraded, since the upgrade took place some time ago and
she only tried to open one of the files yesterday.

Does anybody have any similar experience or some advice to
share? I will be very grateful.
 
I've had experiences like this. I like to blame excel, too. (But it's a lie
for me <vbg>!) Tell her to try it after hitting caps lock (a common problem).

And if that doesn't work, then this link:
http://google.com/groups?threadm=#[email protected]
contains a macro posted by Norman Harker and J.E. McGimpsey that removes both
workbook protection and worksheet protection (tools|protection, not passwords to
open).

If you're new to macros, you may want to read David McRitchie's intro at:
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/getstarted.htm
 
Hi,

Passwords are generally backward compatible, therefore I suspect that
the old password may have been forgotten.

In any case, there are many simple tools available to download online
that
can remove password protection in Excel. Some tools are free or very
cheap.

I quote from a recent post which I hope may prove helpful to you...

Please do not attempt to access a file unless you are authorised to do
so.

--- Original Message ---
There are a number of very good password cracking & recovery programs
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available, many of which can easily be downloaded from the internet.
Have you tried any of the following web sites?

http://intertek.org.uk
Download a free program to recover Word or Excel passwords.

password-crackers.com
Russian password crackers - excellent program based on encryption.

officerecovery.com
soft4you.com
elcomsoft.com
soft4you.com
officerecovery.com
lostpassword.com
accessdata.com
Some of the major commercial vendors.

http://spider.bokler.com/crak_body.html
A premier cracking information website.

Etc... I apologise to all those excellent websites I've missed.

Try a www search - there are many good sources of help with cracking
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Word passwords, and indeed almost any password!
 
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