worksheet protection as a encrypted password

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Hi,

I have seen that in one spreadsheet a worksheet password in VBA looked like: Const password = "é]CÔŢ~áü$đŚ¸»łË=‚XTŁµĂš`;픟‘¨ěۆČFFĚö4żą0"

And yet when it came to: ThisWorkbook.ActiveSheet.UnProtect Password:=password it worked perfectly fine.

However when I type in this password in the review -> unprotect sheet then it does not work.

How to make a password show in VBA in an encrypted way as shown above? Say in the VBA it looks like "é]CÔŢ~áü$đŚ¸" but in the unprotect popup window you type in "secretpassword" and the sheet is unlocked?

Thanks.
 

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witamserdecznie said:
Hi,

I have seen that in one spreadsheet a worksheet password in VBA looked like: Const password = "é]CÔŢ~áü$đŚ¸»łË=‚XTŁµĂš`;픟‘¨ěۆČFFĚö4żą0"

And yet when it came to: ThisWorkbook.ActiveSheet.UnProtect Password:=password it worked perfectly fine.

However when I type in this password in the review -> unprotect sheet then it does not work.

How to make a password show in VBA in an encrypted way as shown above? Say in the VBA it looks like "é]CÔŢ~áü$đŚ¸" but in the unprotect popup window you type in "secretpassword" and the sheet is unlocked?

Thanks.
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If I understand right, you don't want the user to see the sheet password in the VBE window . If so, cant' you password protect your vb project to prevent the user from seeing the sheet password along with the rest of any code you may have ?

Edit: I tried the above encrypted password in excel 2007 and worked fine.
 
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I tried it several times and it does not work on my machine. It does work when protected and then unprotected through VBA but not through the 2007 ribon. I will try to test it on another machine - maybe then...
 
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