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How To Unprotect An Excel Sheet Without Password

This document provides steps to unprotect an Excel sheet without knowing the password by using Visual Basic for Applications code. The steps are: 1) Press ALT + F11 or click View Code to open the Visual Basic editor. 2) Copy and paste the provided VBA code into the editor window. 3) Click the Run button or press F5 to execute the code. 4) The sheet will be unprotected and a message displayed with the password that can now be used to unprotect other sheets.

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How To Unprotect An Excel Sheet Without Password

This document provides steps to unprotect an Excel sheet without knowing the password by using Visual Basic for Applications code. The steps are: 1) Press ALT + F11 or click View Code to open the Visual Basic editor. 2) Copy and paste the provided VBA code into the editor window. 3) Click the Run button or press F5 to execute the code. 4) The sheet will be unprotected and a message displayed with the password that can now be used to unprotect other sheets.

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How to Unprotect an excel sheet without 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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