ExcelBanter - macro to crack passwords

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http://mcgimpsey.com/excel/removepwords.html

For more details.

whylite wrote:

I password protected a spread sheet with a number and then used a macro to
crack the password. Within the macro I requested that it give me a message
box telling me the number that it used to unlock the page. I was amazed to
find that the number did not match the password I had used. I relocked the
page with the original password and the tried to unlock the page with the
number that the macro gave me and sure enough the page unlocked. I am
wondering is it also possible that if I use letters to protect a page that
the result would be the same? That it could be possible to unlock the page
without have the correct password.
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Thanks!
Shane W

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