Enter Password Excel

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WhenI open excel - it tells me that it's password protected though I have tried using online suggestions to unprotect this. It says" >>> Is reserved by... enter password for write access, or open read only" I enter the password and have tried to unprotect by going into file/info/protect workbook. Here I have tried: Encrypt with password - I have deleted the password in here. I have "protect current sheet" the box that pops up says "unprotect sheet", I have put in my password to unprotect the sheet. (each step I try, I save it and close it and open again to see if it is still asking me for my password). I have gone to the tab and right clicked and clicked on Protect sheet, each time a box pops up called unprotect sheet and I enter the password - this also does not change the fact that I still need a password when I open this doc. I need this to be accessible. What can I try?

Thank you for responding. I tried this and all online suggestions. eventually i just did a save as and renamed it - this solved the issue. It was stuck on this password and would not remove it no matter what. It must have been corrupted.

I would like to password protect my document, but have the option to read only if you do not have the password. If I go to 'Info' and set to password protect and read only, it still makes users enter the password then opt-in to read only. I'm using Office 365 Excel. Other excel sheets in my organization can do this but I can't seem to do it on mine. Maybe their documents used another version of excel when they were created...

Protecting your important files with a password (password protected in Excel) has become a sort of a must for everybody. With the ever-increasing cases of cyber theft, one always has to be on their toes when it comes to work-related data and numbers. Whether it is your personal computer or laptop, or your electronic device at your office, each of them should always be password protected to save yourself the trouble later.

However, forgetting your Excel password is a common behavior and it can be frustrating and it can feel like you are unable to access the data that you need. Fortunately you don't need to worry when you forgot excel password as there are specialized solutions that can help you unlock Excel file password protected.

As we mentioned above, it is possible to open password protected Excel file. And this post will tell you how to open a password protected Excel file with or without knowing the password and make your spreadsheet workable once again. In addition to all these solutions, this post will also act as your guide on how you can open and repair a corrupted Excel file to perfect quality.

Since you are already aware of the password, part 1 is the simplest, easiest, and least time-consuming part. All that needs to be done by you is that you have to enter the password in Excel and the file will be opened in front of you in a matter of seconds.

1. Open File - The first step is to go to the location where your to-be opened file is and double-click on it. You can also right-click on the desired file and select the 'open' option. While there are other ways of opening the file too, these two are the most often selected ones.

2. Enter Password - Since the sheet you are striving to open is password-protected, you will be greeted with a pop-up where you will be asked to enter the password which will unprotect the sheet. Once unprotected, you will be able to see the contents of the sheet.

3. Click OK - Once you have entered the password, you will have to click on the 'OK' option which is present on the bottom right of the pop-up. This will lead you to the file, ready for you to see and work on it.

Another reason why this part has been termed as the easiest and fastest of all is that no matter which Excel version you are using - Excel 2007. Excel 2010, Excel 2016, or any other Excel version for that matter, the steps for each of them are the same.

In the case of known passwords can easily open password-protected excel files, but how to open password protected Excel file without password? Please continue to see the following methods.

Microsoft developed a programming language named VBA which is a part of Microsoft Office. VBA is the acronym for Visual Basic for Applications and is used to accomplish thousands of different tasks such as maintaining a list of various things, helps you in forecasting & budgeting, helps you in analyzing scientific data & also aids developing charts.

7. Press 'Ctrl + F' - Pressing the Ctrl button and F together will let you find your desired word. In this case, you are searching for the word 'SheetProtection'. You need to search for.

When you have successfully undertaken all the 10 steps written above, all your worksheets will be rendered unprotected. This means you will be able to open any of your files without having to type in the password.

Are you faced with the issue that you forget your excel password? If you are thinking about using an online tool to unlock password protect Excel file, then the first thing you need to make sure of is to have a strong and reliable internet connection to save yourself from any obstruction while the task is being done.

While we are at it, it is also important to know that not all files can be unlocked. Thus, it will not be wrong to say that online methods to unlock excel file password protected work only when the strength of the password is not too strong. Also, it is not an entirely safe way to unlock your Excel file. Thus, you should go for online methods only if the file in question does not contain life-altering data.

Third-party tools can be used to open corrupt files but one has to be exceptionally careful while choosing this third party. Make sure this third-party tool is reliable and can perform multiple tasks.

Wondershare Repairit is the most widely suggested tool to perform such kinds of functions. This software can effectively and easily repair XLSX files. Also, Repairit is available for both Windows and Mac OS. Here are some of the added advantages:

Q. Can I remove or change workbook passwords?

Ans. Yes, you can remove or change workbook passwords. Anybody who knows the current password can remove or change workbook passwords. The steps are pretty simple. All you have to do is open the desired workbook and click on the Unprotect Sheet, which will remove the password. To change the password, click on Protect Workbook and type and confirm the new password.

If you are somebody who is stuck with an Excel spreadsheet because you too put up a password and now cannot seem to remember it, we have got you covered with this post. By the way, Wondershare Repairit is a good choice for you.

I want to write an Excel VBA macro to input the password automatically for the user. That way, the user does not need to input the password manually every time they double click on the file. Is this possible? If so, how can I do this?

@iceagle, I do not have enough reputation to "comment" on @(Siddharth Routh), but I regret the comments and the answer for saying it is meaningless/useless/can not be done.

For instance if you have a whole set of excels that you want to alter but are all password protected. If now you run them all via a loop you have to enter the password everytime again (seems stupid when you have 1000+ files no?) A better option: encode the macro of VBS, which has the password in it and can therefor change all the encoded files! Provide the user with this password and now you still have 1000 encoded files only you do not have to enter it everytime.

Now these two Subs execute only after the password has been entered in a password protected file i.e after the workbook has opened. So there is no way this can be run before the password is fed to the password dialog box or before the Workbook is opened.

There is no command-line parameter to pass in the password. But what you can do is have a "opener" spreadsheet that takes a spreadsheet name and password as parameters and using VBA opens the password-protected spreadsheet.

I have an automation script created and when I encounter the Import Wizard step it fails when I try to import large excel files (I've asked the other members on my team if they could try running this script and they all run into the same error as well). This import step is just trying to import an excel .xlsx file into a database and where I'm running into an issue is that a box will pop up in Toad to prompt me to enter a password with the text of this box reading "Please enter password". The issue is that this excel file is not password protected. I can open the excel file just fine it does not require a password and it's not in read only when opened this is an excel document that I have extracted and saved myself.

When the "Please enter password" prompt box shows up in Toad I'm given the option to enter a password or cancel. It allows me to enter a password and no matter what password I enter, the dialog box will go away and then after some time another dialog box will show up that then says "Error importing data, please check file format options -- Unable to load file".

I thought that there might be some special characters in the excel document throwing Toad off by chance so I broke the file into four parts to see which rows it failed on to try to pinpoint the issue. When this large excel document was broken up into 4 smaller excel documents it was able to run just fine so this password issue seems to be only happening when I try to import large excel files.

Lastly, I still have Toad Data Point 4.3.0.718 (64 bit) installed and weirdly enough this automation script runs just fine on this version and does not ever prompt the password error box. I wouldn't mind just switching back and forth between the two, however as a team we are trying to all move to Toad Data Point version 5 so that we can maintain standardization with our automation scripts as the scripts in version 4 are not compatible with version 5 and need to be updated to fit version 5.

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