First, workbook and worksheet protection aren't considered by MS (or
anyone else who's been informed) to be in any way related to "security".
In fact, XL04's help describes them this way (Help, "About protecting
workbooks and worksheets from changes" topic):

Caution The features in Microsoft Excel for hiding data and
protecting worksheets and workbooks by using passwords are not
intended to be used as mechanisms for securing data or protecting
confidential information.

Second, that's the nice thing about these newsgroups. They're *not* run
by MS, they exist on thousands of news servers all over the world, and
they're archived by Google from nearly their inception.

MS has its own servers that host and provide web portals to the
newsgroups, at least in part, because it saves them millions of dollars
by providing free tech support. So it's critical *to them* that the
information be frank and credible.



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Sloth wrote:

I agree with you for the most part, but it just seems taboo to talk about
hacking Excel's Security on a forum run by Microsoft.