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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...
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.
How were you able to save it google sheets if you couldn't open the document?
The protection was just for a sheet rather than the whole document. I have the same issue, the whole document is passworded.
I'd like to think it's not possible to undo it, otherwise, what's the point? But I'll read on .. .