Excel sheet protection Issue

[Srinivas]

I protected a excel worksheet under windows 2000
professional, and hidden all the rows in the first
worksheet. After that I installed Windows XP
professional. Now I cannot able to unprotect the sheet.
So all the hidden data is not possible to unhide. Please
let me know is there any solution so that I can get the
data back.

Regards,
Srini

 

[Frank Kabel]

Hi
do you receive an error message or what happens exactly?

 

[Dave Peterson]

My bet is that you mistyped/forgot the real password.

But J.E. McGimpsey has code that'll unprotect your worksheet within moments:
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/removepwords.html

 

[Myrna Larson]

You can find password crackers on the internet. Try Google. Some are free,
others are commercial products.