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meh

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Dec 31, 2003, 1:55:55 PM12/31/03
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We let an employee go and he assigned passwords to certain spreadsheets and
now we can not get in there.


Is there any way to change or delete the passwords?

Thanks

John Wilson

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Dec 31, 2003, 2:14:29 PM12/31/03
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meh,

Workbook or Worksheet protection??

Take a look here:
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/removepwords.html
and here
http://j-walk.com/ss/excel/links/pword.htm

John

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Chris Leonard

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Dec 31, 2003, 2:40:30 PM12/31/03
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http://www.straxx.com/excel/password.html

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Harald Staff

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Dec 31, 2003, 4:32:53 PM12/31/03
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Adding to the others: An employee can't do that. The files are almost always
company property. Call him/her and get the passwords, if necessary with your
company lawyer sitting next to you.

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Tom Ogilvy

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Dec 31, 2003, 4:56:34 PM12/31/03
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If you can't open the workbook, none of the suggestions so far will work.
You will probably have to use a commercial cracker program like
www.lostpassword.com

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Tom Ogilvy

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Chris Leonard

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Jan 1, 2004, 12:38:29 PM1/1/04
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And he says, "I forgot them, sorry"

What will you do now ? screw him in the courts for having a poor memory ?

Get real

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J.E. McGimpsey

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Jan 1, 2004, 12:53:46 PM1/1/04
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It is certainly real. A company I used to work with sued a former
employee who refused to divulge a password and the employee was
fined $800/day up to $8,000. Seems the judge just didn't buy that
the woman had "forgotten" in less than a week a password that she'd
been using every day for the last year.

She at first tried to claim that she'd recently changed it. It was
pointed out that the company had backups over a year old, and that
the company, once it cracked the password, could try the cracked
passwords on the backups. Faced with perjury, she recanted.

Of course, this was enough years ago that the $250 "guaranteed
crack" wasn't available. The economics have changed, certainly, but
suing for lost productivity can still be a valid claim.

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