You may find yourself faced with a need to generate random character strings for various reasons. Recently I needed to help a company set up email accounts for all of their employees on a new server. I was given the email address usernames but needed to create the passwords for each account. I didn't want to be lazy and assign everyone the same password, or even an easily … [Read more...]
Protect a Worksheet Except for Individual Cells
If you have ever used Excel to gather information from people in a pre-defined form setup, you know it can be frustrating when the responses contain added rows, columns, comments out of sight, etc. The purpose of taking the time to set up a form is so that you can get your data in a consistent format/layout. It's actually pretty easy to protect your worksheet from people who … [Read more...]
How to Recover Lost Excel Passwords
Let me preface this article by saying that this will not help you recover lost data, or gain access to protected data that you otherwise wouldn't have access to. What it will do is allow you to unlock a password protected worksheet in Excel, so that you can edit it as necessary. Simply put, if you don't already have access to the worksheet, this macro will not help … [Read more...]