In this tutorial we are going to show you about how you can actually crack the MS Office 2003, MS Office 2007, MS Office 2010, MS Office 2013 and MS Office 2016 file opening password with AOPR. Microsoft Office 2007 Crack of the MS Office is that of the “Smart Art” which can be seen in the insert tab of the crack ribbon interface in the MS Word, Excel in the Power-point as well as in the Outlook. This product key works to all ms office pro edition 32 bit and 64 bit.
Advertisement Protecting your zombie romance whodunnit novel draft with a super strong password was a great idea. That is until you cannot remember the password to unlock the Microsoft Office document. And now there is no way in. Luckily, several really useful programs remove Microsoft Office password protection. Here are five of the best.
Microsoft Office and Password Protection Before we begin, let’s get one thing straight. You should only use these tools to remove passwords from your own documents.
When you use one of these tools on any other documents, there is a chance you’re committing a crime. We want nothing to do with that.
It is also useful to understand just what the password recovery program is doing. Sometimes the littlest of things make the biggest of differences. We uncover overlooked Microsoft Office features and show you how they could improve your workflow. Programs fall into two categories: tools that remove and tools that recover. Both are useful but serve slightly different purposes. Furthermore, understand what the password does. Microsoft Office from 2007 onwards.
Cracking a 128-bit AES key is an extremely time-consuming process. With a sufficiently strong password, the file will remain secure, even using known AES-128 breaks.
Finally, we consider Would you mind if someone peeked through your OneNote notebooks or had access to your Word documents? If your answer is yes, let us show you how to protect your Office files. The Free Word and Excel Password Recovery Wizard is one of the first options to consider. The program attempts to unlock files using either a dictionary or brute force attack (as do most of the other tools on this list).
Attempting to put a modern Microsoft Office file results in an error. There are options to configure both attack types. The dictionary attack uses different case sizes with the option of a custom word list, while the brute force attack uses variable password length as well as the option of a custom character set.
Supports: Microsoft Word and Excel 95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, claims also to support 2010, 2013. The Word Password Recovery Master is another useful free option to consider for password removal and recovery. It supports a wide range of Microsoft Office versions, making it useful in solving a wide number of issues. The claims of support, however, aren’t completely truthful. During my tests, the program couldn’t recover or remove basic passwords created using Office 2010, so I have further doubts about its ability to remove encryption on later versions. However, Microsoft Office 2003 passwords were easy to remove.
The program also notes that it does not support custom encryption types, only default Microsoft Office encryption. Supports: All Microsoft Office versions Elcomsoft’s Advanced Office Password Recovery (AOPR) is our first professional tool. As such, it comes with a price tag. In this case, you get what you pay for. At $49, the Home Edition is the cheapest option.
However, it doesn’t allow GPU use for cracking or removing passwords and relies solely on CPU power (and the Home Edition is limited to a single CPU, too). GPUs are more efficient password crackers so if you’re serious about removing that password; I would suggest upgrading to the $99 Standard Edition. Aside from price, AOPR has a wide range of features, allowing for custom dictionaries, custom character sets, and variable password lengths, as well as running short pre-brute force dictionary attacks just in case. Also, if you know anything about the password you can “mask” information to streamline the process. AOPR is guaranteed to work on older Microsoft Office versions.
The program also successfully unlocked several test documents I ran, though the passwords weren’t particularly difficult. Given enough time, AOPR seems like a great choice (albeit costly if you are only unlocking one file). Supports: Microsoft Word and Excel 97, 2000, 2003 CrackIt!
Is a slightly older password cracker, developed originally for Windows 95. However, it still works with Windows 10 and better still, requires no installation, running as a simple executable. It is basic, only offering a brute force attack, with limited dictionaries too. But it will work for those basic passwords, on older Microsoft Word and Excel files. Supports: All Microsoft Office versions SmartKey’s Office Password Recovery program is another worthwhile paid-for tool if you’re in a password protection pickle. Like Elcomsoft’s AOPR, if given enough time this program will crack an AES-128 key (so long as the key isn’t that difficult).
Furthermore, the user interface is one of the nicest amongst the password cracking tools and is certainly one of the easiest to use. The Standard version will set you back $24.95 but doesn’t allow GPU acceleration.
With that in mind, I’d pay the $34.95 for the Professional version that allows up to 32 CPUs and eight GPUs. These Password Recovery Tools Aren’t Flawless Sure, there are more Microsoft Office document password cracking programs out there. The majority offer the same functionality as the above programs; other paid options cost more but offer the same range of features. You must understand that you will not crack every password, especially those using the latest Microsoft Office encryption, especially in combination with a sufficiently strong password. Remember when passwords didn't have to be complicated?
When PINs were easy to remember? Those days are gone, and cybercrime risks mean fingerprint scanners are next to useless. It's time to start using passcodes. And you’re looking at thousands of hours to decrypt a single file, if it is even possible (hint: it isn’t).
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Have you forgotten your Excel password for a workbook or sheet? Or has someone left your office and they forgot to unlock an Excel workbook with a password set on it? If you’re stuck with an XLS file with a password that you need to break or crack, you can try out a small little utility that just might be able to get you back into your Excel file. Remove Excel Workbook/Worksheet Passwords is a freeware program that you can use to remove/crack/break/unlock a password on an Excel 2010 or earlier workbook or sheet.
However, you still have to be able to open the file itself. If the file is protected in that you cannot even open the file without typing a password, I’ll mention another program that you can use to crack that Excel password. However, for most Excel password protection, it’s usually on the workbook or sheet so that someone can view the file, but not make structural changes to the file or changes to the cells. If this is your case, download the add-in and double-click on it. Excel will open and you’ll be asked whether to enable or disable the macros associated with the add-in. Of course, enable it.
Then go ahead and open the Excel workbook that has the password on it that you would like to get rid of. There will be two new menu options under Tools, called Unprotect Sheet and Unprotect Workbook. Note that you can also open the workbook first and then double-click on the add-on to get the new menu options. I created a test workbook and protected both the sheet and the workbook with a simple password at first. The program worked perfectly and it removed the protection very quickly! However, I decided to see how well it worked with a fairly complex password set to the workbook!
I used 9 character password that had a combination of uppercase, lowercase, numbers and a symbol to put the Excel password remover to the test and I was quite surprised that it actually managed to crack it after about 2 minutes! Not bad at all! What’s really surprising is that you can break a password of any length using this add-in for all versions from Excel 97 to Excel 2010. I also used a 17 character password that has numbers and symbols and it was cracked in about 5 seconds.
Why so fast and why doesn’t it matter how complicated the password is? Unfortunately, the password is only as safe as the amount of encryption used to store the password. The encryption is weak in Excel and therefore passwords can be easily cracked no matter how complicated or how long they are.
If you’re using the Excel 2007 or 2010 add-on, you’ll see a new tab called Straxx and three options: Unprotect sheet, Unprotect workbook and Unprotect all. The last one is for the, which you have to pay for. The PRO version is also the only version that will work on Excel 2013 and Excel 2016 files.
You’ll also need the PRO version if you want to use the program on a Mac computer. It’s $28 for the Windows version and $26 for the Mac version.
You can purchase those. Remove Excel Protection and Remove VBA Passwords Now if you’re trying to crack the password that is needed to open the Excel file itself, you will have to try out some other programs, which unfortunately are not free like the one above, however, there are your best chance at getting into that Excel file. For Excel 2003 and earlier, the password to open the file can be cracked instantly. For Excel 2007 and above, the password to open an Excel file is stored more securely than the workbook and worksheet passwords and therefore can’t be cracked instantly, but has to be done using normal brute force dictionary attacks, etc. Will not only remove or recover worksheet and workbook passwords, it’ll also recover the password to open an Excel document and VBA project passwords too.
Not only that, but you can specify a directory and the program will scan all Excel files in the directory, find all passwords in each document and crack them for you. The program will set you back $29.95 and you can. It’s only worth it if you really need to gain access to an important Excel file that is password protected. Like I mentioned earlier, though, this program can crack any password associated with an Excel 2003 or earlier file no matter how long or how complicated it is.
It cannot recover the password for Excel 2007 and above, so don’t buy this program if you need to see the password. It can remove Excel passwords all the way up to Excel 2013. Here is a chart on what the program can and can’t do and for which version of Excel. Also recovers all types of passwords for Excel spreadsheet files including sheet, workbook, file open, etc. This program also works up to Excel 2013, the latest version of Excel. In addition, it also has methods for attempting to crack an open file password for Excel 2007 and above.
You can download a demo of the program that will only display the first three characters of the password, however, this might be enough to jog some people’s memory! If you still can’t remember, you can buy it for $39.
The program has 9 built-in dictionaries for performing brute-force attacks, though you should know that the program will only be able to check about 400 to 800 passwords per second on an average PC. This may sound like a lot, but for a very complex password, it means the program may never be able to crack the password. Again, this is only for the open file password on Excel 2007 and above. If you need to crack an Excel VBA password, you should check out from the same company.
It supports all office products including Word, Excel, Access, etc for VBA password recovery. It also supports multilingual passwords. It also costs $39.
Online Excel Cracking Tools If you can’t get your Excel 2007 to 2013 password cracked using the tools above because it’s going to take too long and the password is too complex, you can try some online tools that can try about 1000 times as many passwords in a second as your home computer can. Pricing varies by site and which options you choose. Here are two other online Excel password recovery tools you can check out: Hopefully, one of the tools above will get you into your password-protected Excel file! Any other Excel password recovery tool you use that you would want to mention? Post a comment!