Ever come across an Excel file that you can open and view but if you wanted to edit it, you can’t, since it is has been protected? And when you try to unprotect, it asks for a password.

Here are a couple of ways to overcome the situation. While, you may not be able to make the original document editable without the password, you can create editable copies. Read the full story

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Google seems to be never resting. On Wednesday, the powerful company launched a set of brand new tools that will help users to build gadgets, that is small Web applications that can display data from the company’s online spreadsheet application.

Google offers its new Gadgets-in-Docs and Visualization API as a platform in which any interested person could build an application for displaying spreadsheet data on a table, chart, or on any other area with a Web page. Practically, Google’s interest is to allow people to expand the use of Google spreadsheets, which are part of the Google Docs product that includes also online word processing and presentation applications. Read the full story