Is there a way to open a password protected workbook without knowing the password?

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Occasionally we will get workbooks sent to us that we need to review that are password protected. Either it is too time consuming to get the password from the original user or the original user is no longer with the company/forgot the password.


Is there anyway to get inside these files without knowing the password?

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Hi Brian,

Thanks for your posting and considering Aspose.Cells.

It is not possible to open the password protected MS-Excel file without password using Aspose.Cells API. MS-Excel will also not open such files without providing the password. So Aspose.Cells behaves same as MS-Excel in this regard.

If you will try to open the password protected MS-Excel file without providing the password, Aspose.Cells will throw exception saying invalid password.