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Remove Password From VBA Project in Excel 2007

This document provides instructions for unlocking the VBA password for Excel files ending in .xlsm. The steps include: 1) Creating a new .xlsm file with a simple password like "macro"; 2) Changing the file extension to .zip and extracting the vbaProject.bin file; 3) Using a hex editor to find and copy the DPB password value in the extracted file; 4) Changing the DPB value in the encrypted file's vbaProject.bin to the copied value to unlock it; and 5) Changing the file extension back and opening the file to view the unlocked VBA code.

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Remove Password From VBA Project in Excel 2007

This document provides instructions for unlocking the VBA password for Excel files ending in .xlsm. The steps include: 1) Creating a new .xlsm file with a simple password like "macro"; 2) Changing the file extension to .zip and extracting the vbaProject.bin file; 3) Using a hex editor to find and copy the DPB password value in the extracted file; 4) Changing the DPB value in the encrypted file's vbaProject.bin to the copied value to unlock it; and 5) Changing the file extension back and opening the file to view the unlocked VBA code.

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6th December 2012


For Excel 2007/2010 (.xlsm) files do following steps: 1. Create a new .xlsm file. 2. In the VBA part, set a simple password (for instance 'macro'). 3. Save the file and exit. 4. Change file extention to '.zip', open it by any archiver program. 5. Find the file: 'vbaProject.bin' (in 'xl' folder). 6. Extract it from archive. 7. Open the file you just extracted with a hex editor. 8. Find and copy the value from parameter DPB (value in quotation mark), example: DPB="282A84CBA1CBA1345FCCB154E20721DE77F7D2378D0EAC90427A22021A46E9C E6F17188A". (This value generated for 'macro' password. You can use this DPB value to skip steps 1-8) 9. Do steps 4-7 for file with unknown password (file you want to unlock). 10. Change DBP value in this file on value that you have copied in step 8. >>If copied value is shorter than in encrypted file you should populate missing characters with 0 (zero). If value is longer - that is not a problem (paste it as is). 11. Save the 'vbaProject.bin' file and exit from hex editor. 12. Replace existing 'vbaProject.bin' file with modified one. 13. Change extention from '.zip' back to '.xlsm' 14. Now, open the excel file you need to see the VBA code in. The password for the VBA code will simply be macro (as in the example I'm showing here).

Posted 6th December 2012 by Anton


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