Forgotten your Excel Password? How to Unprotect Excel Without a Password!

Forgotten your Excel passwords? No problem. With these techniques you can easily remove Excel password protection for sheets, workbooks and Read Only files.

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0:00 How to remove Excel Passwords
0:27 Worksheet Protection
1:02 Removing Worksheet Passwords
4:16 Workbook Protection
4:44 Removing Workbook Passwords
6:21 Read Only File Protection
7:18 Removing Read Only Protection
8:21 File Open Protection

[EliotPowell]

incredibly helpful. I have seen other videos explaining these techniques, but yours is the clearest and simplest to follow. well done!

[christopherpanford]

This was super helpful. My accountant left a couple of months ago and when I recruited a new one, we realised that our entire books were protected. We have been struggling to get it unprotected for weeks, and within 10mins your video has done the magic. Thank you.

[pw]

After looking at numerous 'How to' videos this is the first one that really work to remove sheet/workbook protection. Very clear and straightforward video.

[marcelolaguna]

Thank you very much!
I always forget my passwords.
I love your channel, your didactics and affection in passing on knowledge are incredible.😀

[shiffamohammed]

Many thanks Mynda, for sharing a video that clearly explains password unprotecting under various situations in excel.

[darrylmorgan]

Hi Mynda!Super Helpful And Clear Explanations...Thank You :)

[Vandalfoe]

Good stuff as usual. I agree this isn't super-spy level protection, but in my opinion it does the job of preventing users (who don't Excel) from typing numbers over your formulas because they're not using the spreadsheet properly.
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[ekkiwurm]

Super helpful video. Thanks a million for sharing, Mynda.

[waynegill]

Such a simple video to follow but it saved me so much work! Thank you!

[tokinabo]

As always, great tips! Thanks a lot, Mynda 🙂

[notesfromleisa-land]

I recently had to use the zip file technique to fix a workbook that would not save as I was getting corrupted and repairs so extensive msgs that make you weep as tons of time in the workbook creation. Removing a bin file using the zip technique saved the day. Here is yet another way to slice and dice. As always great vid content perfectly presented

[MlguelM]

Wow Mynda! Nice usefull tips! Thanks a lot!

[arjungovindan]

Superb Mynda, explained very clearly.... Thanks a lot ❤

[powerb_i]

Great video and well explained. Thank you.

[terrycathie]

The zip file worked for me and I can’t thank you enough. A great deal of work had gone into the spreadsheet and I was pretty upset with myself. Thanks again 👍😊

[MsChampohsan]

Wonderful tips! Its kinda suffering when I forgot the password that I have set. Thank you! Incredible video ever!

[Liz-uo]

AMAZING! You saved me a great deal! Thank you, subscribing!

[adammaamoun]

Thank you, it helped a lot. It is important to save a copy of the xml file we are editing because I messed up multiple times since I was not using Notepad ++ and didn't know when the workbookprotection and sheetprotection statements ended. Yes, your instructions were used for legal process to unprotect an excel file I forgot its password.

[will]

thank you for this resource! saved me a few hours of recreating a sales document.

[noahmayorestor]

Wow, its really great to find this video that makes me back to my work. Thank you.