How to open Password Protected Excel File (No Software & 100% Free) 

You just saved my LIFE!! it worked !! I typed the password wrong and couldn't guess it. I have a presentation tomorrow morning and without you I wouldn't be able to do it!! Actually I would be jobless by the afternoon :'D Thank you

Fantastic trick and was easy. I was one of the those who doesn't show the XL folder and the post on the comments made me find its way. Kudos to the uploader and those who commented.

This procedure totally rocks! I had to have my xls file to the newer format xlsx and then the procedure worked like a charm

This didn't work exactly as you described, but you gave me enough information to get it to work. Thank you so much.

I’ve been trying to crack a worksheet in one of my files for a while. This worked for what I needed it for!

Thanks a lot. So simple & a lot easier than writing a VBA code. Thanks for posting

Excellent tutorial! Very clear and right to the point. Thanks.

this is just awesome! Risk free and easy!! no fear of downloading viruses or paying anything etc. THANKS A LOT!!

Thank you so very very much for these instructions - they've just saved my bacon at work! :) Very easy instructions, worked first time. Thank you (x100000000)

Thank you so much. I did it for excel 2013 and "password" was not in the file, but sheet protection was and worked great

This works like a charm. IF YOU'RE HAVING ISSUES GETTING THE XML FILE TO GIVE YOU THE OPTION TO "OPEN WITH", drag the xml "page file" to your desktop. Then Right Click -> Open with -> Notepad. Once in Notepad, click EDIT -> FIND. Type "password", which makes it so you don't have to search through all the mumbo-jumbo. Clear the the contents as he shows in the video. Save the file and close it. Drag it back to the extraction folder. Exit out of everything and rename the file back to xlsx. And that should be it. Once it works, you can delete the XML file you dragged to your desktop that is still there. This works in windows 10, and I'm pretty sure you don't need an extraction tool, as windows 10 has one built in.

Kudos to you....and I feel so much smarter now! I have a lot of info on the worksheet and "password" was like trying to Find Waldo in Notepad... but mission accomplished.....Worked great...Thanks !

Thank you so much!!! You saved me a lot of time since I forgot the password I gave the file!

I'm using 2016 and it wouldn't give me the RL folder but it turns out i had to re-save the file as an XLSX and then it worked! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks man, needed to work on a file created by my predecessor. It worked!!

This helps alot...it worked for me...if there are multiple sheets, you need to do this on all the sheet's xml.

Sweet and easy. Worked for me. Thanks much!

Thanks a Lot sir.. !! I was unable to do it for the first 3,4 times.. but then after few attempts I was able to do it perfectly..!! It works very easily and smoothly Thank You!!

You are a gentleman, and with 435,277 views, it is criminal that you don't have 435,277 Likes. Great work.

Excellent! No softwares... no doubts!

Worked for me for opening protected cells as well, thank you

Way to get straight to it thank you. Any thoughts on what to do if I don't have the "open with" option?

Worked like a charm, thanks guy. Used to unprotect sheets using Win 7 and Win 8, Office 2010

Man, this help a lot. Big thanks bro!

works perfect on Excel 2016 files, thank you so much!!!

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Dude, you just saved me a TON of work. Thanks!

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Thank you.... It helped me to unlock my old important file.... thanks a lot :) Subscribed to your channel :)

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Nice -- a little cleaner than the method I have been using with excel script. Nice to have another method in my tool belt.

Excelent! Works like a charm!

worked as a charm, thank you

Thanks. Didn't work on .xls so I opened the xls in excel, saved it as an xlsx, then did the rest as you suggested. Worked great.

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Worked great!! Thanks!

Thank you! It really works!!!

Thank you. Actually, it is even better to remove whole XML block about sheet protection, because in some new version it has been made using more logic. If you remove whole it will work.

Thank you so much! It is so useful for me.

Wow. Nice work. Smooth as silk.

This is some good instruction thanks bro

C'est Magique!!! Merci pour l'astuce

Awesome! Thank you!

LIFE SAVER!! THANKS HEAPS

worked perfectly...Thanks!!

Thanksss work!!!!

this worked great for my windows, but unsure how to do this on my Mac? Thank you soooooo much. Life saver!!!! Can you tell us how to do this with MAC. I was unable to find the View menu to click on the "hide extensions....."

this is how to crack a SHEET, not a FILE. if you have a locked FILE you cannot open the document at all. you cannot put in code. this is inaccurate.

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Thanks buddy it worked for me!

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Awesome! Many thanks!

Do Not Mislead.. with the title. You are solving the problem of Excel Sheet not File? How to open the excel file?

Thanks for the helpful video. This method worked for me. Is there a method using which I can create VBA (or similar) or Sheet that cannot be hacked?

thanks duude alot works fine you just need to save it to newer excel extennsion version. Open your excel file and go save as word 2007 or later version it should be name.xlsx

Can you use this to decrypt a fully password protected Excel 2013 file? When I open the ZIP can I remove a different section of the file since I don't have Sheet Protection to remove?

Worked. Thank you.

Thank you very much!

Awesome! Thanks a lot

Worked like Magic thanks

great video you gat here man. there one stuff i will like you to add, thats the enable macros to unlock any protected sheet.

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Very good...I had to also download jZip and had to save the xls as xlsx...but after that, it worked just like you said. Thanks,

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Thanx man, its working! :)

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Wow !!! It worked for me ... great

Works for me THANKS :)

Thanks!!!

Brilliant !!!

it worked to do everything you said, the only thing it didn't work was to remove the password protection at the end.. it still asks for a password.. it cannot just be unticked . I'musing a mac btw.. maybe that will have a meaning for you. do I need to do anything different on a mac? Thanks

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Thanks a ton!!!!!!!!

Thanks it works (only on XLSX)

I tried the procedure but after converting it into a ZIP file. The ZIP file does not open. Please help☹

Saved me bro thx a lot🍻

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Danke, very clever

do you know if this will work on xls shared folder?

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workes fine. TNX!!

Amazing!!!

Great tutorial, however when I tried to open it with NotePad, it didn't give me an option and just opened it in Internet Explorer window and I couldn't delete the "password", please advise, thank you

You are Great

When pressed open .zip it say archive is either in unknown format or damaged

Thanks man its also working for mac?

Thanks