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How to unprotect Excel sheet if forgot the password
I found this post from search engine and tried a couple of answers shared by others in this thread. However,
most of them were not working. Fortunately, I recovered the password successfully thanks to the reply made
by LindaHamilto.https://www.softfixnow.com/how-to-unprotect-excel-sheet
P.S. for strong open password, you have to wait sometime to finally retrieve the password and unprotect the
sheet afterwards.
For your information, you can open a worksheet/VBA Project/ etc. but not a workbook!
Opening Excel workbooks is almost impossible, even Microsoft informs inform its customers that this is not possible.
There is a “high” probability that you can open a worksheet or a workbook structure but not a locked workbook.
Even if many websites on the Internet report that these files can be opened, this is usually not possible. What these websites are doing is brute force with a mask attack. Most of the time you get a message afterwards that the file cannot be opened and you can insert a new one.
Brute force method just tries all possible combinations of characters and symbols automatically controlled, which also takes a lot of time to find MS Excel password, most of the time it doesn't work.
Opening a workbook is very time-consuming and associated with high resource costs. The only files that could possibly be unlocked are the older types of Excel files.
If I may last recommend, don't let anyone tell you (not even me 🙂 that it's easy and possible, so be careful with the offers you can find on the internet.
Thank you for your understanding & time