I am confronted with the same problem.
Have you been able to solve the issue?
Cheers.



"Jonesy" wrote:

> Just changed jobs and have now gone back to more of an IT based job.
>
> Anyway approx 10 years since I opened some of my files in Word and Excel and
> low and behold some of them are password protected.
>
> Obviously I have all the files on discs but am unable to access them.
>
> Is there a way around this?
>
> If there is how do you do it?
>
> Any help would be greatfully appreciated as some of the calculations done
> previously in excel were done over a couple of weeks not just hours.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Jonesy