How to Break Password Protection from a Protected Excel Sheet

[jerome]

I've tried it today. I managed to unprotect the excel sheet and manage to see all the formulas in each cell. Really helpful. Great work.

[darinhayes]

Excellent tutorial. Out of all the videos I have watched, you are the only person that showed how to change the file extension back to an xlsx file after it had been renamed. Thank you!

[TeacherABC]

I just tried it today. Thank you so much it really works! Just to make sure gonna remove until the word scenario> which was not mentioned in the video. Life saver!

[michaelayoola]

I have found this video really helpful in making my work easier. The video demonstrates how to use a workbook with one visible sheet, but I'm not sure how to apply the same techniques to a workbook with an additional two hidden sheets connected to the visible sheet. The visible sheet serves as a summary page for the information on the hidden sheets.

[godwinuche]

Honestly there’s something special about your way of teaching. I have watched this unlocking passworded sheet from other channel and learned it but the person never talked about the file extension name because when we save our sheets it doesn’t reflect the xlsx name so I had to find out myself but you just put out this video for the first time and made sure you explained the xlsx part which is why I believe learning from your channel is more easier than any other channel. Even tho I already learned this I knew you would explained it in a baby steps that’s why I never skip any video you put out

[lucyv.]

This is absolutely amazing! I watched few videos before that and they did not have details like you had, so I could not go passed "change extension to zip file". you saved me at least 10 hours of work. Thank you again!

[graythebruceii]

Great video. I tried this same hack by following steps in an article and it corrupted the file. (Yeah, I had a backup.) Then I watched your video and there's a subtle but important difference in your approach. Yours worked just fine. No difficulties at all. (For those interested in specifics: The article had me unzipping the file, making changes, and then re-zipping, rather than surgically implanting doctored copies into the still-zipped file. One gets the impression they saw a video or read about it but never did it themselves, so they just assumed you had to do that unzip/rezip thing and that it wouldn't cause problems. In any case, if anyone's looking at an article that says to unzip the folder and also looking at this video, and you're wondering which one to follow, follow the video.)

[timgiles]

This is helpful - you've solved a problem that I've suffered with for years - thank you

[hojftwn]

Excellent! By far the best tutorial there is about unlocking excel file.

[garycline]

I had done this before but lost the tutorial. Thanks for sharing it has saved me a lot of grief. The file I was working on had 6 protected sheets that are now all unlocked. Thanks again

[sezaiturkmen]

Simple, articulate, to the point explanation! Thanks

[yvg]

Amazing. Watched and read others but this is bar-none the best in teaching, tone, tempo...for a tech novice user! Thank you, thank you!

[carolgregorovic]

THIS WAS A GREAT INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO AND SAVED ME HOURS AND HOURS OF THANK YOU

[SabaTef]

Wow I find this months after I gave up trying to remember a password I set on a worksheet. I just opened it using your teaching. Thank you!

[kydcartr]

Wow. You just saved me a ton of work. Your solution worked like a charm, and your explanation was perfect.

[highcotton]

OMG it worked! Sooo happy. My computer gave me the option to put the edited file back into the zip drive and delete the other, so I chose that and it did it for me. I then changed it back to an excel doc and boom, all good. Thanks much!

[Anorak]

You're the goat of tutorials, thank you so much

[naginagrandison]

Awesome video, our computer person that we hire at our company told me that it could not be done. I followed through and it worked perfectly. Thank you

[yoaiyang]

Useful video, especially to show the file types part

[aminrezaie]

Excellent job. I was struggling on some xls file and just I saved it as xlsx and then did your thing. Thank you very much