Excel Document Automatcially Password Protecting

[shrevpea]

We are having quite a few problems in which when a user saves or e-mails a
document that is NOT password protected that it will password protect the
document and we cannot use any free hack to open the document. We can pay
$20.00 a pop and it will return it unlocked -- some of the time. We do have
a document management system that we use but I had a user that was received
an excel document from someone, opened it from the e-mail, e-mailed it back
to the person then saved it in our document system and the document that was
e-mailed out was password protected as well as the document that was saved to
our document system. Can't reproduce (which I could) but curious if anyone
has heard about this?

 

[JE McGimpsey]

We are having quite a few problems in which when a user saves or e-mails a
document that is NOT password protected that it will password protect the
document and we cannot use any free hack to open the document. We can pay
$20.00 a pop and it will return it unlocked -- some of the time. We do have
a document management system that we use but I had a user that was received
an excel document from someone, opened it from the e-mail, e-mailed it back
to the person then saved it in our document system and the document that was
e-mailed out was password protected as well as the document that was saved to
our document system. Can't reproduce (which I could) but curious if anyone
has heard about this?

FWIW, I've never heard of this.

If it's XL's file protection that is being set, then use of a doc
management system is irrelevant - though obviously the system could
require a password to access the file.

What version of XL are you using? Do these workbooks have macros
associated with them?

Since it sounds like not all workbook files are being protected, is
there any consistency to which ones do get protected?

 

[shrevpea]

We are using Office 2007 but we have it saving as 97-2003 verison. No macros
associated with them. If it were just one user I would get a little
suspicious, but it happens sporadic throughout our 7 offices, happening to
our IT director as well. It really doesn't seeme to be a password as when I
upload it up to a dcryption site, it returns the document in a matter of
seconds fixed but as stated it runs about $20 a pop. It's almost like there
is a switch that has not changed. I had our Accounting Systems administrator
complain of this 2 times last week. One was an excel document that she
worked on with graphs and tables. The other was an excel document that she
received from an outside source and then made changes, e-mailed it out then
saved in our document management system and both files were locked. Any
enlightenment is appreciated.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

We are using Office 2007 but we have it saving as 97-2003 verison. No macros
associated with them. If it were just one user I would get a little
suspicious, but it happens sporadic throughout our 7 offices, happening to
our IT director as well. It really doesn't seeme to be a password as when I
upload it up to a dcryption site, it returns the document in a matter of
seconds fixed but as stated it runs about $20 a pop. It's almost like there
is a switch that has not changed. I had our Accounting Systems administrator
complain of this 2 times last week. One was an excel document that she
worked on with graphs and tables. The other was an excel document that she
received from an outside source and then made changes, e-mailed it out then
saved in our document management system and both files were locked. Any
enlightenment is appreciated.

Since this is a Excel for Macintosh newsgroup (hence the .mac. in the
group name), you may get a better answer in one of the other Excel
groups.

However, it certainly sounds like either a macro (or perhaps a macro
virus) or user error.

FWIW, if the decryption site knows what it's doing, it SHOULD only take
a very short time to remove the password/decrypt the file.

 

[shrevpea]

I'm sorry...I didn't see that....I'll post elsewhere...thanks for your help.