How do I open a p'word-protected xls file with Open Office?

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Someone sent me a password-protected Excel spreadsheet. Open Office is telling me it can't open the file because of the password. Is there any way around this? (I don't have Excel or Office).
 
Re: How do I open a p'word-protected xls file with Open Offi

Doesn't look like it's a straightforward task from reading this.
 
Re: How do I open a p'word-protected xls file with Open Offi

Someone sent me a password-protected Excel spreadsheet. Open Office is telling me it can't open the file because of the password. Is there any way around this? (I don't have Excel or Office).

You could ask the sender to save the Word doc without a password, or convert it to PDF and apply a password (Adobe is safer for transmitting docs than Word anyway due to all the extra stuff that Word leaves in the file) or encrypt the DOC file using a DES tool. Or simply WinZip the DOC file and apply a password.

Neither WinZip passwords nor Word passwords are immune to cracking - they are just to prevent casual interception.
 
Re: How do I open a p'word-protected xls file with Open Offi

Assuming you actually know the password, you could download the free Excel Viewer 2003 and open it there.
If you want to change it, then maybe you could copy and paste cells into OpenOffice?
 
Re: How do I open a p'word-protected xls file with Open Offi

Thanks, Sleppeah. The Excel Viewer worked.
 
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