Retrieving a password

Margaret_Skinner

Browntoa wrote: »

this will find it

http://www.freewordexcelpassword.com/

Thanks - just giving that a go just now - will let you know how I get on!

googler

OK, I just tried opening a Word doc with 'Internet Service Provider' in the text; within Notepad I can find the text formatted as

'I n t e r n e t S e r v i c e P r o v i d e r'

(one space between each letter), and close to the beginning of the file - three lines down, in my case.

If you can do a Find within Notepad for a key phrase or word with the letters spaced out like this....?

Margaret_Skinner

googler wrote: »

OK, I just tried opening a Word doc with 'Internet Service Provider' in the text; within Notepad I can find the text formatted as

'I n t e r n e t S e r v i c e P r o v i d e r'

(one space between each letter), and close to the beginning of the file - three lines down, in my case.

If you can do a Find within Notepad for a key phrase or word with the letters spaced out like this....?

Yeah I tried the "Mary etc" as a test and that worked fine. When I tried it in the entry though there was nothing. That particular entry was entitled Christmas Parties or something like that so I thought well it must be about Christmas so tried various versions of the word 'christmas' - nothing. I'm trying an evaluation version of the program suggested above at the moment but I'd have to pay for the full program - not sure if it's stuck - it's got about three-quarters through but Task Manager says it's still running. I'll go cut the grass and leave it then see where it's at later on!

Margaret_Skinner

I'm in!!

A program called WORD Key recovered enough of the password through the free demo to jog my memory - now written down in a safe place and once I find out how to get the password off (using Openoffice now - doesn't seem to be the same procedure as in WORD) it'll be history!

Thanks so much everyone - much appreciated :beer: