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Excel password protected - how to unprotect
When I open excel - it tells me that it's password protected though I have tried using online suggestions to unprotect this. It says" >>> Is reserved by... enter password for write access, or open r...
I have encountered similar problems before. Every time I open an Excel file, it prompts for a password. Although I can enter the password to unlock it, no matter how I try to cancel the protection, it doesn't work, especially the encryption and protection settings of the worksheet seem to have no effect at all. Later, I used Dr-Excel, which really saved my life.
I followed this tutorial and succeed!
https://www.zdnets.com/excel-password-recovery
This tool can directly help you recover the password protection of Excel files, and it is super fast. For my locked file, it took only more than an hour to successfully recover the 6-digit password, and it can be edited freely!