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
 
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Peter T

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

Regards,
Peter T
 
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Richard Edwards

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
 
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Peter T

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
 
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Richard Edwards

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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Bernie Deitrick

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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Richard Edwards

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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