Excel For Mac 2011 Unprotect Sheet Without Password

It means the Excel sheet is protected and you need to unprotect it by click on the Unprotect Sheet button in the Changes group under the Review Click OK and the Excel sheet will be unprotected immediately. You can modify the sheet without password. Free Way 2: Unprotect Excel sheet. How to Unprotect an excel sheet without password A Trick to Crack Password of Ms Excel Work Sheet.

This worked for me beautifully. It would open only as a Read Only document without the password. My spreadsheet was password protected in Excel 4, way back when. I opened it in Open Office, deselected the Sheet protection, then used Save As to save it under a different name. (I added a 05 to the original name.) I also saved it as a Excel 4 document, then upgraded it by opening it in my current 2008 Excel and, again, using save as to save it as the current version.

Now I can see all of the formulas that took weeks to develop way back then. I can also revise anything I want to revise. I still have the original protected version, but your procedure worked to open it and save an unprotected version.