How to Break Password Protection from a Protected Excel Sheet

What do you do if your Excel spreadsheet is protected with a password, but you don't know the password? This video shows you how to remove the password from off of a protected Excel spreadsheet, even if you don't know the existing password. ***Support Technology for Teachers and Students on Patreon***: / technologyforteachersa... Here's my entire playlist of Excel tutorials: bit.ly/tech4excel Consider saying "Thanks" by clicking the Thanks button below the video. Here's the practice file for this video: bit.ly/excelbreak #excel #exceltutorials #microsoft365

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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!

[@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.)

[@lucyv.391]

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!

[@jerome5009]

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.

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[@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!

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Simple, articulate, to the point explanation! Thanks

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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

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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

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[@highcotton63664]

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!

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excellent explanation, thanks for sharing with so much detail and clarity.

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

[@JeffLafrenz]

Excellent tutorial! I was even able to use this method on a Mac using WinZip to look at end extract the sheet.xml data, fixing it and reinsering the corrected xml. Fantastic.

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

[@garycline7397]

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

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Excelent. Thx for your work, saved my day.

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[@michaelayoola4198]

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.

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Worked like a charm after a bit of work to follow your instructions. I found the first step difficult because Windows 11 hides their "File" command for some crazy, unknow reason. Well done, once again and a hearty "thank you"

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[@Chachabinks]

I've converted my .xlsx file to .zip. However, whenever I attempt to Open the new .zip folder I get an error message stating: "Windows cannot open the folder. The Compressed (zipped) Folder is invalid." Any suggestions?

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[@YoussefTsun]

For those who found their files shown as corrupted or extension error. Please follow the steps carefully, try not to delete something outside the protection parenthesis. And mostly important, try to return your file extension to its original form. If your file was .xlsm because it had macro in it. Then return it to .xlsm not .xlsx. Good luck. And all thanks to the video publisher

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[@renmaki6159]

thanks so much! I've been wondering why I couldn't change extensions anymore

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