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Lost password on Excel file
I've lost the password on an Excel file and I know that some people said you
can't retrieve. But someone at work had done it previously with a software that was purchased. I cannot contact this person and would like to know if someone has any idea how to unlock the file either by removing the password or retrieving the password. |
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Lost password on Excel file
I am not aware of any way to recover the password of a
password-protected Excel file. You might get lucky with a password cracking tool. Find them on the internet. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est On 12/11/2009 2:16 PM, needstechhelp wrote: I've lost the password on an Excel file and I know that some people said you can't retrieve. But someone at work had done it previously with a software that was purchased. I cannot contact this person and would like to know if someone has any idea how to unlock the file either by removing the password or retrieving the password. |
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Lost password on Excel file
"needstechhelp" wrote in message
... I've lost the password on an Excel file and I know that some people said you can't retrieve. But someone at work had done it previously with a software that was purchased. I cannot contact this person and would like to know if someone has any idea how to unlock the file either by removing the password or retrieving the password. You can try our "Advanced Office Password Recovery": http://www.elcomsoft.com/aopr.html In Office 97/2000, encryption was 40-bit only (due to US export restrictions) and so very easy to break (guaranteed, regardless password length and complexity). Office XP/2003 uses old (compatible) encryption by default, but also support the enhanced one -- with it, only dictionary and brute-force attacks work. But they can help for relatively short and simple passwords only. With Office 2007 and 2010, the situation is much worse (for us ) -- finally, Microsoft has done everything right, and password-cracking speed speed is very low. So there's a chance to break the password up to 5 chars only. /Vladimir /Vladimir |
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