excel help

[PatsMemoryLoss]

how do i recover and excel doc; with a forgotten password? I know there has
to be a back door way of getting this document opened. Or a way of
retreiving forgotten passwords. PLEASE can someone help me

 

[p0]

how do i recover and excel doc; with a forgotten password?  I know there has
to be a back door way of getting this document opened.  Or a way of
retreiving forgotten passwords.  PLEASE can someone help me

What would be the use of a password if there was a backdoor?


You could google for a password cracker which will just keep trying
passwords from a dictionary or random letters till it succeeds. One of
the first hits I came across on google was http://www.decryptum.com/ .
They seem to offer a preview option before you buy something, so you
could test if it works for you. I personally never used it, so I can't
vouch for it. Otherwise, there is freeware out there, but it will
probably be a lot slower.

Yves

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You have posted an Excel question in a Word newsgroup. You'll probably have
better luck posting in an Excel newsgroup.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Graham Mayor]

The document is encrypted. The only way to break that encryption is with the
password. Any password can be discovered in time, but if the password is
more than a three or four characters long and those are random characters
then that time can be seriously long. Also you have the issue of giving your
credit card details to someone who creates software to crack passwords!

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP


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[CyberTaz]

In support of what the others have written you may find this useful:

http://mcgimpsey.com/excel/fileandvbapwords.html

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac