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This document provides instructions to unprotect an Excel sheet without knowing the password in 3 steps: 1. Press ALT + F11 or click View Code to access the Visual Basic editor. 2. Copy and paste the provided code into the white space. 3. Click Run or press F5. The sheet will be unprotected and a message displayed with the generated password.

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Unlock Excel File

This document provides instructions to unprotect an Excel sheet without knowing the password in 3 steps: 1. Press ALT + F11 or click View Code to access the Visual Basic editor. 2. Copy and paste the provided code into the white space. 3. Click Run or press F5. The sheet will be unprotected and a message displayed with the generated password.

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How to Unprotect an excel sheet without

password
THis document will tel you how to unprotect an excel spread sheet without having the
password

In case of a password protect worksheet you are unable to Edit the data on the Excel
Sheet. If you do not Remember the Password or do not know the password to
unprotect the sheet just follow the below simple steps.

Press ALT + F11 or click on View Code in Developers Tabs


In the Above White Space Enter the below Code. Do not change the code just copy
paste:

Sub PasswordBreaker()
'Breaks worksheet password protection.
Dim i As Integer, j As Integer, k As Integer
Dim l As Integer, m As Integer, n As Integer
Dim i1 As Integer, i2 As Integer, i3 As Integer
Dim i4 As Integer, i5 As Integer, i6 As Integer
On Error Resume Next
For i = 65 To 66: For j = 65 To 66: For k = 65 To 66
For l = 65 To 66: For m = 65 To 66: For i1 = 65 To 66
For i2 = 65 To 66: For i3 = 65 To 66: For i4 = 65 To 66
For i5 = 65 To 66: For i6 = 65 To 66: For n = 32 To 126
ActiveSheet.Unprotect Chr(i) & Chr(j) & Chr(k) & _
Chr(l) & Chr(m) & Chr(i1) & Chr(i2) & Chr(i3) & _
Chr(i4) & Chr(i5) & Chr(i6) & Chr(n)
If ActiveSheet.ProtectContents = False Then
MsgBox "One usable password is " & Chr(i) & Chr(j) & _
Chr(k) & Chr(l) & Chr(m) & Chr(i1) & Chr(i2) & _
Chr(i3) & Chr(i4) & Chr(i5) & Chr(i6) & Chr(n)
Exit Sub
End If
Next: Next: Next: Next: Next: Next
Next: Next: Next: Next: Next: Next
End Sub

Now Click on the Run Button or press F5:


And there you go the sheet is unprotected for you now. Also you would be getting a
message in the pop up window.

This Message is contains the password which can be used to unprotect the other
sheets in the same workbook.

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