Removing the password from a VBA project

Question

How can I programmatically remove a (known) password from an Excel VBA project?

To be clear: I want to remove the password from the VBA Project, not the workbook or

Answer 1

I found another way to solve this one to avoid password of VBA Project,with out loosing excel password.

use Hex-editor XVI32 for the process

if the file type is XLSM files:

1. Open the XLSM file with 7-Zip (right click -> 7-Zip -> Open archive).
2. Copy the xl/vbaProject.bin file out of the file (you can drag and drop from 7-Zip), don't close 7-Zip
3. Open the vbaProject.bin file with HexEdit
4. Search for "DPB=" and replace it with "DPx="
5. Save the file
6. Copy this file back into 7-Zip (again, drag and drop works)
7. Open the XLSX file in Excel, if prompted to "Continue Loading Project", click Yes. If prompted with errors, click OK.
8. Press Alt+ F11 to open the VBA editor.
9. While press it will show error “Unexpected error (40230)”, just click OK (6 or 7 times) until it goes away.
10. Then it will open Automatically