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How To Unprotect An Excel Sheet Without Password

This document provides instructions for unprotecting an Excel sheet without knowing the password by using Visual Basic code. The code attempts all possible character combinations to uncover the password through brute force. When the code is run, if it is successful in unprotecting the sheet, a message box will display the password that was used. This uncovered password can then be used to unprotect other sheets within the same workbook that are protected with that same password.

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How To Unprotect An Excel Sheet Without Password

This document provides instructions for unprotecting an Excel sheet without knowing the password by using Visual Basic code. The code attempts all possible character combinations to uncover the password through brute force. When the code is run, if it is successful in unprotecting the sheet, a message box will display the password that was used. This uncovered password can then be used to unprotect other sheets within the same workbook that are protected with that same 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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