I've been sent a faily complex Excel workbook to lookthrough that has a fair amount of VBA behind it. Unfortunately the numpty who wrote it put a password onn it and didnt keep a record of it anywhere. Does anyone know a way of breaking or removing the password from the VBA module without having to shell out for a piece of commercial software?
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not tried it but found thisOriginally posted by DaveB View PostI've been sent a faily complex Excel workbook to lookthrough that has a fair amount of VBA behind it. Unfortunately the numpty who wrote it put a password onn it and didnt keep a record of it anywhere. Does anyone know a way of breaking or removing the password from the VBA module without having to shell out for a piece of commercial software?
http://www.straxx.com/excel/password.html
or this is only $45
http://www.lostpassword.com/vba.htm#orderwhats the lowest you can do this for? -
I tried lostpassword software - could only do 1 of the 23 documents I needed to open.
decryptum.com - managed to do them all very quickly - $29 per upload.Comment
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I've got one. If you trust me with the excel sheet I can remove the password for you.Originally posted by DaveB View PostI've been sent a faily complex Excel workbook to lookthrough that has a fair amount of VBA behind it. Unfortunately the numpty who wrote it put a password onn it and didnt keep a record of it anywhere. Does anyone know a way of breaking or removing the password from the VBA module without having to shell out for a piece of commercial software?
PM me if interested.Comment
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