Decrypt Excel Documents If You Have Lost Your Password

- July 20, 2010, 4:56 am

If you have forgotten your password for a password-protected Excel document, then you probably think you have every reason to be very worried about it. However, before you lose hope, there may be some options. If you urgently need access to the restricted data, then you have probably already tried brute-force password hacking, i.e.; when the computer basically tries to guess what the password is. However, this can quite literally take hundreds of years if you have a complex password, which is hardly very convenient If a dictionary attack has failed and brute-force hacking is not practical due to the sheer amount of time involved, then it is simply impossible to recover the password, but that does not necessarily mean that you have completely, permanently lost access to the data

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