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Subject:Re: Password Protections - Excel From:Mark Dando <danmcc -at- OZEMAIL -dot- COM -dot- AU> Date:Fri, 14 Aug 1998 11:08:47 +1100
I use Excel 5.0 (Windows 3.1), so can't be sure, but...
Why not just open the Excel document as a read only file and save it with
another filename?
Mark Dando
danmcc -at- ozemail -dot- com -dot- au
Sheila Marshall wrote:
>Hi all!
>
>A coworker password-protected an Excel 95 document a long time ago and can
>no longer remember the password. She's now in Excel 97. She's tried
>numerous combinations and it won't budge. She turned to me as a resource,
>but the only answer I came up with after some research was that she needed
>the password to open the document.Since we don't like this answer, I'm
>broadening my search. Have any suggestions or workarounds?
>
