Re: st: password protection and -import excel-

[David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net>]

At 11:08 AM 6/28/2012, Clyde Schechter wrote:
> I have been given some data to analyze in the form of several Excel 
> files.  I want to bring them into Stata with -import excel- in a 
> loop, but they are password protected (I have the password).  I 
> can't find anything in the help file or the manual about an option 
> for specifying the password.
>
> So then I thought I might do it in Stat Transfer (version 11), but I 
> can't find any way to get that to open a password protected file either.
>
> For now, I'm just going through them all manually, re-saving them 
> under new names without password protection, and then importing 
> them.  But it's tedious.  I'm hoping somebody out there knows a way 
> around this.
> [...]

I've had the same problem; used the same solution -- re-saving them 
under new names without password protection.

I'd be curious to know if any other solutions have been found.
I wonder if Excel can run a script -- to open and re-save a set of files. ??

--David

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