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Crack Password in Excel protected sheet
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What you might want to do is select all of the data, copy and paste it onto a new sheet that is not protected. You should be able to get everything off of the sheet using that method.
Otherwise, you will have to pay some company to crack the password. There are tons of these services advertising on the internet.
I, of course, would choose the free route.
Good luck!
Otherwise, you will have to pay some company to crack the password. There are tons of these services advertising on the internet.
I, of course, would choose the free route.
Good luck!
Are the cells protected or the workbook itself? If the workbook is password protected, there isn't anything that I can think of that will open it.
If the cells are protected, then the above recommendation of copy and paste will work but paste special with values and formulas, not format. OR you will be copying the protected areas again.
HTH
Mary
If the cells are protected, then the above recommendation of copy and paste will work but paste special with values and formulas, not format. OR you will be copying the protected areas again.
HTH
Mary
Have have to disagree with the previous post!!!
I have 'forgotten' lots of excel passwords and the protection (up to Office 97, at least) is pathetic.
There is a commercial progam called MSOfPass 97 that works on Word & Execl. The Word part is 'brute force' cracking that can take rather a long time but the Excel uses the poor protection to give a password that works in less than a second (in my experience)
You have two options:
You can either register it ($45) or find a registration crack (I had a link for this but it's dead now - search around tho, they're out there) and use it for free
I have 'forgotten' lots of excel passwords and the protection (up to Office 97, at least) is pathetic.
There is a commercial progam called MSOfPass 97 that works on Word & Execl. The Word part is 'brute force' cracking that can take rather a long time but the Excel uses the poor protection to give a password that works in less than a second (in my experience)
You have two options:
You can either register it ($45) or find a registration crack (I had a link for this but it's dead now - search around tho, they're out there) and use it for free
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