{"id":2752,"date":"2013-07-12T03:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=2752"},"modified":"2018-03-06T01:11:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T01:11:48","slug":"how-to-unprotect-a-password-protected-excel-2007-or-excel-2010-worksheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/how-to-unprotect-a-password-protected-excel-2007-or-excel-2010-worksheet\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Unprotect A Password Protected Excel 2007 or Excel 2010 Worksheet"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a large Excel worksheet that is password protected and I’ve forgotten the password. How can I unprotect the worksheet?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How to remove Excel worksheet protection when your password is lost or forgotten? If you need to modify a password protected Excel worksheet but lost the password, you’re required to unprotect the worksheet before editing it. Is there a way to remove Excel worksheet password without knowing the original password?<\/p>\n

At this situation, the freeware Excel Password Remover comes in handy. It’s a Excel Add-In that is able to remove and unprotect the Excel workbooks and worksheets password. It can remove passwords of any length, also passwords containing special characters.<\/p>\n

How to Unprotect A Password Protected Excel 2007 or Excel 2010 Worksheet?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. First of all, open your Excel worksheet with Microsoft Excel application.<\/li>\n
  2. Download the Excel Password Remover<\/a> program. After the download is complete, Unzip the download file and there are two files: password.xla and password_2007_2010.xlam. password.xla is designed to remove MS Excel 97\/2000\/XP\/2003 passwords while password_2007_2010.xlam is for removing Excel 2007\/2010 passwords.<\/li>\n
  3. Double-click the password_2007_2010.xlam file. The Excel application will ask if you want to enable or disable Macros. After you click on Enable Macros<\/strong>, you will get a pop-up saying the Excel Password Remover program is loaded.<\/li>\n
  4. Now click on the Straxx<\/strong> menu, you’ll see three options: Unprotect sheet, Unprotect workbook and Unprotect all. Simply click on Unprotect sheet<\/strong>, you’ll get a message saying your worksheet password removed in less than one minute.\n

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  5. Save your worksheet and exit Microsoft Excel application. Next time when you open the Excel worksheet, you are able to edit it without limitations. Done!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Updated:<\/strong> We’ve recently developed a professional password cracking software which lets you quickly recover Excel password with GPU acceleration technology. You can check it via this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I have a large Excel worksheet that is password protected and I’ve forgotten the password. How can I unprotect the worksheet? How to remove Excel worksheet protection when your password is lost or forgotten? If you need to modify a password protected Excel worksheet but lost the password, you’re required to unprotect the worksheet before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1,10],"tags":[1415,1418,1419,1414,1416,1417,1413],"class_list":["post-2752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-software","category-others","category-tips-tricks","tag-forgot-excel-worksheet-password","tag-remove-excel-worksheet-2007-password","tag-remove-excel-worksheet-2010-password","tag-remove-excel-worksheet-password","tag-unprotect-excel-2007-worksheet-password","tag-unprotect-excel-2010-worksheet-password","tag-unprotect-excel-worksheet-password"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11148,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions\/11148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}