add-in passwords

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Richard Edwards

Can anyone recommend a tool for removing/cracking add-in passwords?

It is extremely frustrating having some wizzy add-ins and to not be able to
make our own tools.

A quick google gives me pages of these tools but i would like to get a
verbal recommendation rather than end up downloading loads of junk.

thanks

richard
 
Are you talking about removing (and/or adding) your own known passwords, or
hacking into files you shouldn't.

Regards,
Peter T
 
i knew i would get a question like that...

i would like to remove/find the password of add-ins that we are not given
the password for as the product then becomes unsupported. We are currently
restricted to functionality that they choose to give us - not what we can
build ourselves.

thanks

rich
 
i knew i would get a question like that...

If you knew that why not say in the OP. What probably did not know, had your
objective been to open multiple workbooks with known password (and/or change
the password) I would have offered you a little app to do that.

Next obvious question - why not ask the developer for the password.

Regards,
Peter T
 
Thanks for your help


Peter T said:
If you knew that why not say in the OP. What probably did not know, had
your objective been to open multiple workbooks with known password (and/or
change the password) I would have offered you a little app to do that.

Next obvious question - why not ask the developer for the password.

Regards,
Peter T
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Richard,

You can crack VBA passwords to your own projects quite easily if you forget the password - see the
instructions at http://www.schmittis-page.de/index.html?/excel/vba/t48e.htm

But note that a lot of addins are simply shells that are used to control calls to compiled dll or
xll files, and you will learn nothing by looking at them. A lot of the most popular add-ins are not
copy protected anyway, since they are given away and the authors want you to learn from their code.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP
 
very handy thanks vm!


Bernie Deitrick said:
Richard,

You can crack VBA passwords to your own projects quite easily if you
forget the password - see the instructions at
http://www.schmittis-page.de/index.html?/excel/vba/t48e.htm

But note that a lot of addins are simply shells that are used to control
calls to compiled dll or xll files, and you will learn nothing by looking
at them. A lot of the most popular add-ins are not copy protected anyway,
since they are given away and the authors want you to learn from their
code.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP
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