Password Protection - Work-Around

mistress · Feb 20th, 2002, 03:20 PM

We had an employee leave the company with great planning on her part. She protected all her workbooks and sheets with a password that is not her normal one. Is there a way to unprotect the worksheet or workbook?

IML · Feb 20th, 2002, 03:26 PM

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On 2002-02-20 14:20, mistress wrote:
We had an employee leave the company with great planning on her part. She protected all her workbooks and sheets with a password that is not her normal one. Is there a way to unprotect the worksheet or workbook?

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good luck

Steve Hartman · Feb 20th, 2002, 03:28 PM

Try looking in the message board archives. Someone posted the code to do this recently.

NateO · Feb 20th, 2002, 03:28 PM

Might be worth a look:

http://www.straxx.com/excel/password.html

The price is right and it works...

Cheers,

Nate

[ This Message was edited by: NateO on 2002-02-20 14:34 ]

DRJ · Feb 20th, 2002, 04:09 PM

There is a free password remover, I forget the name but there is a link on http://www.J-Walk.com/ss

It will remove workbook and worksheet protection relatively quickly. I had a 15 digit password with numbers letters and capital letters and it hacket it in 7+ mins. This will only wor if you can open the workbook itself, if the workbook is protected so it cant be opened then there are programs available, but those all cost $$ for what I have seen.

HTH

DRJ

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Feb 20th, 2002, 03:20 PM	#1
mistress New Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 1	We had an employee leave the company with great planning on her part. She protected all her workbooks and sheets with a password that is not her normal one. Is there a way to unprotect the worksheet or workbook?

Feb 20th, 2002, 03:28 PM	#3
Steve Hartman Board Regular Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Houston,Texas Posts: 418	Try looking in the message board archives. Someone posted the code to do this recently.

Feb 20th, 2002, 03:28 PM	#4
NateO Legend Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Minneapolis, Mn, USA Posts: 9,704	Might be worth a look: http://www.straxx.com/excel/password.html The price is right and it works... Cheers, Nate [ This Message was edited by: NateO on 2002-02-20 14:34 ]

Feb 20th, 2002, 04:09 PM	#5
DRJ MrExcel MVP Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: California Posts: 3,857	There is a free password remover, I forget the name but there is a link on http://www.J-Walk.com/ss It will remove workbook and worksheet protection relatively quickly. I had a 15 digit password with numbers letters and capital letters and it hacket it in 7+ mins. This will only wor if you can open the workbook itself, if the workbook is protected so it cant be opened then there are programs available, but those all cost $$ for what I have seen. HTH DRJ