Excel is asking for a password while I never set one

Tiny · External Since: Jul 27, 2006 Posts: 7

From one day to another I can't open 2 of my Excel documents because they are
suddenly protected?
One file is .xls en one file is .xlsx
I'm sure I never set any password.
How is this possible and how to access my files again?

Gord Dibben · External Since: Feb 23, 2004 Posts: 9178

I have never heard of Excel files passwording themselves.

Does "one day to another" mean OK one day but not the next then OK on third
day?

I'm betting "Someone" added a password.

Passwords to open files are not easily cracked.

There are some commercial applications out there that will do so.

Do a 'net search on "password cracker".

Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 08:29:02 -0800, Tiny <Tiny.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>From one day to another I can't open 2 of my Excel documents because they are
>suddenly protected?
>One file is .xls en one file is .xlsx
>I'm sure I never set any password.
>How is this possible and how to access my files again?