crack a password ??? First of all, I can't be botheres to use Excel or Word apps at all. They call the whole package Works now. I have Open Office which is a free application that is able to create and open files that are very simular to Excel, word, Poverpoint,... plus when you finish writing a doc or something in OPen Office, you just click on a button in the toolbar and it will translate it into PDF. Very handy.
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