"sam" wrote in message ...
I had saved a doc in excel and password protected it. I have forgotten the
password now and do not know how to open it. Any suggestions??

Hi Sam,

You can download a simple tool to find the password to open a
protected MS Excel file.

Here is one of many that are readily found by searching Google for
password recovery tools:

http://www.intertek.org.uk/downloads/excel.html

Mark.