It can be very frustrating when you want to use a password protected resource and you forget the password. Even online membership sites can be frustrating enough. But when it’s a project in a password protected Excel document and you forget the password, it can be an unwelcome block to your progress.
Remove Forgotten Password to Open Excel File or Remove Read-Only – Zip Method Without Software
Fortunately, there are a few things you can do to remove a password from Excel. If you want to protect your document with a password, you can save and protect it again after you crack it. But for this article, we’ll focus on cracking.
Removing the password from Excel refers to just that – making the file so that it no longer has a password. Cracking the password is, as it sounds, cracking the password so that you can access the file. That can be a case where the password is cracked on the way to removal or cracked on the way to crack.
Yes, cracked sounds like broken but think of hack. In the case of cracking a forgotten password, you find out what the password is so you can access the file.
