Description
Our Ultimate Guide to unprotect an Excel spreadsheet (when you have forgotten the password) is designed to take you through easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and show you how you can protect and unprotect your Excel spreadsheets (especially when you have forgotten your password).
From simple steps to unprotect your spreadsheet when you know your password through to “HELP!!! I don’t know my password and I am locked out of my spreadsheet!! What do I do now?” instructions. Our Ultimate Guide is very straightforward to use and covers MANY different scenarios.
The steps presented within this guide are based on our many years of experience and practical knowledge and our everyday use of Excel. The Guide details the very same steps we use on an almost daily basis helping our clients gain access to their spreadsheets.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
- How to PROTECT a spreadsheet, the WORKBOOK structure, WORKSHEETS (tabs) within the spreadsheet and VBA (macros) code
- How to UNPROTECT a spreadsheet, the WORKBOOK structure, WORKSHEETS (tabs) within the spreadsheet and VBA (macros) code – when you know the password
- How to UNPROTECT a spreadsheet, the WORKBOOK structure, WORKSHEETS (tabs) within the spreadsheet and VBA (macros) code – when you have FORGOTTEN the password
REQUIREMENTS
- The information and step-by-step instructions within this Ultimate Guide are easy to follow and presented in a very straightforward way.
- This Ultimate Guide was developed using Microsoft 365. If you are using different versions of Excel, the steps and screenshots outlined will predominantly be very similar however may differ from what you see on your screen.
- It is assumed you have a basic understanding of Microsoft Excel and how to navigate and use the basic functions within this software.
WHAT IS COVERED WITHIN THE GUIDE
Table of Contents:
- Excel Protection
- How to password protect an Excel Spreadsheet
- How to unprotect an Excel Spreadsheet (when I know the password)
- How to password protect an Excel Workbook
- How to unprotect an Excel Workbook (when I know the password)
- How to password protect an Excel Worksheet
- How to unprotect an Excel Worksheet (when I know the password)
- How to password protect my VBA Code / Macros within my spreadsheet
- How to unprotect my VBA Code / Macros within my spreadsheet (when I know the password)
- Help, I have forgotten my password. What do I do now?
- How to unprotect an Excel Spreadsheet (when I have forgotten the password)
- How to unprotect an Excel Workbook (when I have forgotten the password)
- How to unprotect an Excel Worksheet (when I have forgotten the password)
- How to unprotect my VBA Code / Macros within my spreadsheet (when I have forgotten the password)
- I still need Help – what can I do?
ULTIMATE GUIDE DELIVERY
- The Ultimate Guide is presented within an Excel Spreadsheet (Microsoft 365 *.xlsm format).
- If you require a *.xls version of this guide, after purchase, please email us at support@excelsupersite.com and we will gladly send you a simplified version of our guide (completely free of charge).
- The Ulitmate Guide uses VBA code (macros) to enhance its functionality. Please ensure you enable macros when using this guide so it functions as it was designed.
BEFORE YOU PURCHASE
PLEASE NOTE: ExcelSuperSite makes NO GUARANTEE that following the instructions presented within this guide that you will be able to successfully unprotect your Excel spreadsheet.
Spreadsheets that require a PASSWORD TO OPEN can ONLY be unprotected if you know the password to open the file. This guide presents some third-party software alternatives that claim they are able to recover/remove passwords to open spreadsheet files. These software are small, lightweight utilities that employ different “attack modes” on your spreadsheet (ranging from brute-force and dictionary-style attacks) and support most versions of Excel, and are not 100% guaranteed to work.
The success rate of them is very largely dependant on the complexity of the password used to protect the spreadsheet in the first place.
Simple passwords that only contain numbers or letters and have few characters may be able to be retrieved without too much trouble. However, if you have a long password (more than 10 characters) that contains upper and lowercase letters, as well as numbers, and also includes special characters, then the success rate of these will generally be quite low.
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