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I had a colleague of mine leave a while back and he protected some
worksheets so users could not modify them. Does anyone have a snipit
of code to get the password?

thanks in advance,
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Excel has a number of different passwords.

Can you open the workbook without a password. If so, then are there sheets
that you want to unprotect.

If so, you can use code found he
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/removepwords.html

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I had a colleague of mine leave a while back and he protected some
worksheets so users could not modify them. Does anyone have a snipit
of code to get the password?

thanks in advance,
Scott



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Tom,

It was for a protected sheet. Thanks for the code, it worked great!

Scott

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Excel has a number of different passwords.

Can you open the workbook without a password. If so, then are there sheets
that you want to unprotect.

If so, you can use code found he
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/removepwords.html


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