The password protection of Office documents are not as secure as one would
think and there are a number of utilities available that will crack Office
passwords. Some are share ware, others have to be purchased. Google
"Password Recovery" and peruse the pages that come back, I'm sure you'll find
something that will work.
--
Kevin Backmann


"Jonesy" wrote:

Just changed jobs and have now gone back to more of an IT based job.

Anyway approx 10 years since I opened some of my files in Word and Excel and
low and behold some of them are password protected.

Obviously I have all the files on discs but am unable to access them.

Is there a way around this?

If there is how do you do it?

Any help would be greatfully appreciated as some of the calculations done
previously in excel were done over a couple of weeks not just hours.

Thanks in advance

Jonesy