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RuthDelbert
Copper Contributor
Jul 01, 2024
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How to unprotect Excel sheet if forgot the password

I recently encountered a problem and hope to get your help. I set a protection password for an Excel file before. Now I want to modify some data, but I found that I forgot Excel password. I wonder if...
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  • Ewosie's avatar
    Ewosie
    Aug 14, 2025

    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.

     

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raikaned
Copper Contributor
Oct 30, 2024

not working, it produce an error insteadToddSumrall 

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rhinotek1
Tin Contributor
Nov 08, 2024

If Unsupported Format error see my solution above.

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    AdaptablePete
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 22, 2024

    Hi I also had this issue with an error  - I found the best way was to follow the Zip file process but instead of deleting the sheet protection code was to replace it with a code of a spreadsheet you know the password - or just generate a dummy spreadsheet with a password protection password and use that code