sheet protection

[Belinda]

does anyone know a way around sheet protection? protection
was put on a document by an ex staff member who can not
remember doing it let alone the password. is there any way
of resetting this?

 

[William]

Hi Belinda

Place the following code into a general module. Then select the sheet you
want to unprotect and run the macro which will unprotect the active sheet.

Sub UnprotectActiveSheet()
Dim i As Integer, j As Integer, k As Integer
Dim l As Integer, m As Integer, n As Integer
Dim i1 As Integer, i2 As Integer, i3 As Integer
Dim i4 As Integer, i5 As Integer, i6 As Integer
On Error Resume Next
For i = 65 To 66: For j = 65 To 66: For k = 65 To 66
For l = 65 To 66: For m = 65 To 66: For i1 = 65 To 66
For i2 = 65 To 66: For i3 = 65 To 66: For i4 = 65 To 66
For i5 = 65 To 66: For i6 = 65 To 66: For n = 32 To 126
ActiveSheet.Unprotect Chr(i) & Chr(j) & Chr(k) & Chr(l) & Chr(m) & _
Chr(i1) & Chr(i2) & Chr(i3) & Chr(i4) & Chr(i5) & Chr(i6) & Chr(n)
If ActiveSheet.ProtectContents = False Then
MsgBox "The active sheet is unprotected."
Application.StatusBar = False
Exit Sub
End If
Next: Next: Next: Next: Next: Next
Next: Next: Next: Next: Next: Next
End Sub

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XL2002
Regards

William

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| does anyone know a way around sheet protection? protection
| was put on a document by an ex staff member who can not
| remember doing it let alone the password. is there any way
| of resetting this?

 

[Dave Peterson]

And a link to get the newest version:

From J.E. McGimpsey's site:
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/removepwords.html

 

[Belinda]

Many thanks William,

I did come across similar code on the web but it must have
been out of date, yours worked.

Thanks again,
Belinad