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How to Unprotect an excel sheet without password
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THis document will tel you how to unprotect an excel spread sheet without having the password
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This procedure works in Excel 2010 and earlier but in Excel 2013 this will not work.
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Department In case of a password protect worksheet you are unable to Edit the data on the Excel Sheet. If you do not Remember the
Purchases Password or do not know the password to unprotect the sheet just follow the below simple steps.

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

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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
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 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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 Keyw ords: Excel, password, unprotect Suggest keyw ords Doc ID: 28850

Ow ner: Kevin B. Group: UW Green Bay

Created: 2013-02-28 15:16 CST Updated: 2015-04-02 09:25 CST

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