"Alan" wrote
Hi Norman,
Thanks for your comment - I am back to 'somewhat concerned' now!

I spent about 20 - 30 mins looking through links from Google, but
found nothing freely available to remove the passwords from a VBA
Project, nor indeed to remove the password from a workbook.

It is quite easy to find trial versions that work for up to 3
character passwords for both of these, but not free full versions for
any length of password..

I found one that unlocks the most cryptic password I could come up with in
1min45sec and thats using my old P166 clunker!

Whilst looking over this topic a short while back I came across a
description of the Excel encryption methodology - from memory (so don't
quote me) the crypt'ed string is about 8 or so chars long but the first six
only have a choice of 2 possible (byte) values leading to only about
4,194,000 discrete hashes to test - not very challenging at all even to a
Z80!

Don't been concerned! - if you assume Excel security doesn't exist then you
will be fine! BTW if you do want to secure your code it appears an .xla
approach using a true compiler is the only option.

Cheers, Frank.