Does anyone know how to recover an Excel VBA password.?

Question

I am using a very old xla file that was protected with a password by a former employee. I would like to recover the vba project password. I do not want to pay some shoddy outfit to use their software to do this. Does anyone know how to do this programatically, using an editor, or anything completely free. Demo versions of the shoddy software only recover 2 characters. I suspect they actually don't recover anything but just try to incite you to buy it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

OK. So a couple of numbnuts have provided shoddy responses already. The first link is not for VBA project password retrieval. On the page there is a link to VBKey. You have to buy it. It claims to recover passwords of 2 characters in the demo version. Whoopee. That's sh!te.

The second link is also to 2 commercial sites.

Does anyone know how to do this programatically themselves ?

Answer 1

Ok, nice and easy to break the password, but everyone wants money to do it!!!

Personally, I use Passware Office kit, and it's been a useful tool getting me out of a few scapes! (Users forgetting passwords!)

I have found this link though, which may help! Basically you Hex-Edit the protection out. There is also a way you can do this with VBA from within the file but I can't remember off the top of my head and can't find a link.

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http://www.schmittis-page.de/index.html?/excel/vba/t48e.htm

Answer 2

http://www.password-find.com/
http://www.straxx.com/excel/password.html

Answer 3

http://www.elkraft.ntnu.no/~huse/xlpassword.htm