How to Crack, Unprotect MS Excel Workbook / Worksheet Password

Many people use the password feature of Microsoft Excel to protect their valuable data stored in worksheets. Some people use the passwords to protect entire MS Excel file, while there is another option which allows you to selectively protect one or only a few of the worksheets in the file. Other worksheets in the Excel file may be open to everybody.

There may be several cases when you might be willing to crack the password of a Microsoft Excel file.For instance, you might have a spreadsheet, prepared by an employee, who has just left you company and there is no way you can ask him to retrieve the lost Excel password. Or you yourself have forgotten the password.

How to Crack, Unprotect MS Excel Workbook / Worksheet Password

There is a small but useful tool from Straxx, which can easily unprotect any password protected Excel worksheet. It is in the form of a freeware download, which adds an add-in (password.xla) to your already existing Microsoft installation. It works fine in Excel 5.0 and above (including Excel 2000, XP and 2003).

This program will remove passwords of any length, also passwords containing special characters.

Loading this add-in in Excel gives you two extra menu-items on the “Tools”-menu (or equivalent in non-English versions of Excel). These are:

1. Unprotect workbook
2. Unprotect sheet

Disclaimer: This Excell Password Cracker only cracks Excel password of worksheets only. To allow it to work, you should be in a position to open the Excel file. Then only this will work.

[Download Excel Password Remover 2009]

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