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How do you disable password protection in Excel?
Hello,
I'm a Systems Administrator looking after about 150 desktop users, all with Office 2007 Profession loaded. We have a problem with some users assigning document passwords even though it is against our corporate policy. The trouble is that if/when these users leave the organization, their private password usually goes with them, and the company ends up in a bind as a result. We would like to completely disable the user's ability to set a password on a document. Is this possible? We're running Active Directory, and have GPOs created to push Office configurations out, but I cannot find an option that would allow me to disable password protection. |
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How do you disable password protection in Excel?
I don't believe that you can disbale protection, but document passwords are
not particularly difficult to break. There are a number of utilities (some of them are even free) that will do the trick for you. The free ones just iterate through assorted combinations and can crack the password just by brute force. A commercial utility that recovers passwords might be the way to go. Hope this helps. -- Kevin Backmann "John" wrote: Hello, I'm a Systems Administrator looking after about 150 desktop users, all with Office 2007 Profession loaded. We have a problem with some users assigning document passwords even though it is against our corporate policy. The trouble is that if/when these users leave the organization, their private password usually goes with them, and the company ends up in a bind as a result. We would like to completely disable the user's ability to set a password on a document. Is this possible? We're running Active Directory, and have GPOs created to push Office configurations out, but I cannot find an option that would allow me to disable password protection. |
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