{"id":675,"date":"2012-07-03T06:08:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T06:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=675"},"modified":"2012-07-03T06:09:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T06:09:29","slug":"how-to-remove-excel-workbook-password-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/how-to-remove-excel-workbook-password-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Remove Excel Workbook Password for Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-676\" title=\"remove-excel-password\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/remove-excel-password.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"79\" \/>How many times have you forgotten password of a Microsoft Excel workbook\/sheet and then had a sinking face?<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Excel has a protection feature that allows users to lock a workbook or sheet with a password. When the Excel workbook\/sheet is protected with a password, any user attempt to edit data shows an error message as follow.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-677\" title=\"protected-workbook\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/protected-workbook.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/protected-workbook.png 555w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/protected-workbook-300x60.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here comes an handy Excel plug-in called Excel Password Remover utility which can remove the password protection from Excel workbooks and spreadsheets. You can install the plug in by downloading it from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/excel-password-remover.zip\">here<\/a>. Once installed, it adds options <em>Unprotect workbook<\/em> and <em>Unprotect sheet<\/em> to Excel&#8217;s Tools menu, and choosing these options does what they are meant to.<\/p>\n<p>Download <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/excel-password-remover.zip\">Excel Password Remover<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To install the plugin you should set security level of Macros to medium by following the menu Tools-&gt;Macros-&gt;Security in Microsoft Excel.<\/p>\n<p>Excel Password Remover can&#8217;t be used to remove password set to open a spreadsheet. If you are unable to open the file because it asks you for a password, this program won&#8217;t help you. Then you need to get this <a title=\"Excel Password Recovery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/excel-password-recovery.html\" target=\"_blank\">Excel Password Recovery<\/a> program to crack the file open password.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many times have you forgotten password of a Microsoft Excel workbook\/sheet and then had a sinking face? Microsoft Excel has a protection feature that allows users to lock a workbook or sheet with a password. When the Excel workbook\/sheet is protected with a password, any user attempt to edit data shows an error message [&hellip;]<\/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":[69,293,292],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-software","category-others","category-tips-tricks","tag-excel-password-recovery","tag-forgot-excel-workbook-password","tag-remove-excel-workbook-password"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","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=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}