Excel Password Cracking

Alright, to start off, here is what has happened.

The company that my IT company supports work primarily from excel to do accounting. So they fire people often. Problem is, this person got wind of it before they were let go and password protected all of his/her spreadsheet. I'm looking for a program that will remove or crack the password on those spreadsheet. I've searched google and found only ones that cost money. If you all have read my previous post you know the company I work for won't spend money.

Anyone know of a good FREE Tool?

I wonder if Cain and Abel might be of help? Particularly with LSA secrets option (pulls from the memory?)

I tried Cain and Abel, it was my first thought. It couldn't help unfortunatly. :-(

Here ya go:

http://www.intertek.org.uk/downloads/

Though this program is COTS, there are ways to get it for free.

Try download.com they have some free password recovery tools. The link is toward some of the downloads available
link

try "free word and excel password wizard 1.0" it is about half way down the screen.

thanks, let me see how these programs work out.

Check Elcomsoft Software. They are very good..

http://www.elcomsoft.com/prs.html

thanks for your help. I had to go with passware software. One of the employee's had it here for "personal" use so i was able to use that. The free password crackers didn't work because they only went up to a max of 8 characters. This password just happened to be 10.

Thanks for all your help though. I really appreciate it.

i have some VBA code that cracks the password on an excel sheet.

but 'cause of the way excel works, there is always more than one password that will unlock the file.

so this macro may not give you the actual password, but it will unlock the excel file, bruteforce like.

sound great.... can you hook me/us up?