Open password-protected the file from this simple excel tips & tricks. Learn how to unprotect excel or remove password from excel. Let me warn you upfront – THE MOMENT you learn applying this trick on How to Unprotect Excel, you’ll JUMP in ecstasy. If you are ready, then read on.
Almost ALLExcel users wish at some point or the other felt the need for some magic to “UnProtect Excel Sheet” password so that they can see the formula and make changes.
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Sep 08, 2016 Perhaps you're simply being deceived by a change in how the menu now works. In prior versions Protect Document contextually changed to Unprotect Document if Protection was active in the document. Word 2016 doesn't work that way - Protect Document is persistent. In order to deactivate Protection either.
If you are searching on the internet then you can see a lot of applications that can unlock restricted PDF documents. But, users can only unprotect PDF online up to 5 MB for free. We are not saying that the online service is very convenient. Due to its unknown functionalities mainly, you do not need download and install the program on your Mac.
How to Unprotect Excel Worksheet or Remove Password From Excel
* Please note that this is the worksheet password and not the workbook password *
To remove password from Excel, you should follow the below steps,
WARNING: People who take the help of Google, they are redirected to 100’s of sites who ask you to download some software:
Some of those software apps will display only the first 2 or 3 characters of the Excel password (trial version).
Some will install interesting pictures and set your default browser homepage to some “one who can’t be named” website. You get the drift!
Some (paid versions) will display 1,29+ hrs of computing time to crack the Excel password in case the password is not a simple dictionary word. (BTW dictionary word passwords can be easily cracked using a technique called “Dictionary attack”. Rest needs “Brute Force attack” technique)
Let’s learn how to remove password from Excel.
Enable display of file extension names (Unprotect Excel)
This will be required to change the file extension. Suppose, for example from Budget.xlsx to Budget.zip and back to Budget.xlsx.
[“Control Panel” – “Folder Options” – “View” tab – Uncheck “Hide Extension for known file type”]
How to Remove Password from Excel Sheet without any Tools (Unprotect Excel)
to remove password from Excel Sheet with any tools, please watch the video and follow the steps,
Change the extension of your Excel file from .xlsx to .zip
Open the zipped file and extract the relevant XML file from the zipped file
Extract these XML files outside the folder. They represent the worksheets in the Excel file. Modified codes using simple “Notepad”. The modified XML file should be put again in the zipped file to replace the old XML files.
Open the XML File & Delete Tags
Open the XML file in notepad and delete the following tags marked in double-quotes below
Step 4: Uncheck “Hide Extension for the known file type”
Step 5: Select the excel file
Step 6: Change the extension of your Excel file from .xlsx to .zip
Step 7: Open Zip File & Extract
Step 8: Open XML File & Delete Excel v. 2007-10 “sheetProtection password=… />” v. 2013 – “sheetProtection algorithmName=…/>”
Step 9: Save & Close Xml File
Step 10: Save Zip File & Run File
How to Remove Password from Excel File (Unprotect Excel)
There are two ways to remove password from Excel file; the one has stated above and the other one is as follows:
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Step 1: Open the worksheet you want to unprotect
Step 2: Click on File > Info > Unprotect Sheet
Step 3: Or go to Review Tab > Changes > Unprotect Sheet
Step 4: If the worksheet asked the password for opening, enter the password and click
Step 5: The worksheet will get opened.
Congratulations, Finally you had removed your locked excel spreadsheet. You can also learn how to create an excel dashboard using Online Excel Dashboard Course