Posts Tagged ‘excel’

Windows cannot find FILENAME from Outlook or Thunderbird – Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.


2010
04.21
Uncheck Excel's Ignore other applications' DDE and you're done!

Uncheck Excel's Ignore other applications' DDE and you're done!

You double-click an attachment in Outlook – or Thunderbird – or any mail client or third-party client, for that matter – and you can’t open the file in Office (in my case Excel 2007, but this works for Excel 2003 as well).

But instead of the file, you get a notification telling you that Windows cannot find “filename“. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the Start button and then click search.

Fear not – there’s hope. (more…)

Excel 2007 password, cell and sheet protection removal – unprotect/remove password easily


2010
03.01

Elmcomsoft has a variety of really good brute-force and dictionary-based password attacks on the full Office suite, including a distributed version to run in the cloud (which I wrote about some time ago). As cool as the software is, it doesn’t allow the removal of cell-based or sheet-based passwords (which kinda sucks), and the password.xla file which seems to be the big thing from staxx.com requires a whole whack of goodies to run on Office 2007 natively.

Enter the same macro that McGimpsey & Associates published in 2004 (reproduced here as per their GPL licence) that removes all internal Excel Passwords: (more…)