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the law - 14 Feb 2007 14:08 GMT

on my job someone made an assignment sheet that has some fields protected
with a password. now they decided to make a change to the sheet that has been
used for over 15 years. the person who made the sheet is dead and the
password went with him.

question : Is there a way to either retreive the password he set or disable
it and put another in replace of it.

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Graham Mayor - 14 Feb 2007 14:18 GMT

See http://www.gmayor.com/Remove_Password.htm

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> on my job someone made an assignment sheet that has some fields
> protected with a password. now they decided to make a change to the
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> question : Is there a way to either retreive the password he set or
> disable it and put another in replace of it.

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Poprivet - 14 Feb 2007 16:40 GMT

Since it's in use, you apparently can open and view it, right? Try copying
the entire document (CTRL-A, (select all,) CTRL-C (copy), open a new
document, and use CTRL-V to paste into it. Then save it with a different
name.
From there you should be able to turn it into a template again; just keep
using new names.

HTH
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