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Establish the Unprotect Password - Excel VBA

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jrheeder Posts 1 Registration date Monday July 26, 2010 Status Member Last seen July 26, 2010 - Jul 26, 2010 at 05:40 AM
rizvisa1 Posts 4479 Registration date Thursday January 28, 2010 Status Contributor Last seen May 5, 2022 - Jul 30, 2010 at 09:34 AM
Hello,

I recently sent out about 200 workbooks, half with one protect password and the rest with another (for this purpose we will make the passwords passA and passB). What I am trying to do via Excel macro is establish what password that sheet is using.

Now I have tried
If IsError(ActiveSheet.Uprotect ("passA")) = False then
...
else if IsError(ActiveSheet.Uprotect ("passB")) = False then
...
end if

Now of course this doesn't work... any advise?

Regards,

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rizvisa1 Posts 4479 Registration date Thursday January 28, 2010 Status Contributor Last seen May 5, 2022 767
Jul 30, 2010 at 09:34 AM
Try to unprotect sheet with one password, then check if the sheet was unprotected. For that you can use

if (ActiveSheet.ProtectContents) then
msgbox "this is a good password"
else
msgbox "this is not so good password"

end if
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