{"id":4391,"date":"2016-12-01T03:53:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T03:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/?p=4391"},"modified":"2023-04-13T08:44:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T08:44:31","slug":"unlock-password-protected-excel-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/unlock-password-protected-excel-file\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Unlock Password Protected Excel File | Excel File Unlocker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we know, MS Excel has a protection feature that everyone could protect excel file by locking it for viewing and editing. If you know the password, probably you have idea to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/unlock-password-protected-excel-file\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>unlock the password protected excel file<\/strong><\/a>. But if you forgot password, how can you do to remove lock from excel file without data loss or damage?<\/p>\n<p>Now let\u2019s just discuss this problem in two parts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#part1\">Part 1: Unlock Excel file locked for viewing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#part2\">Part 2: Unlock Excel file locked for editing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"part1\">Part 1: How to Unlock Excel File Locked for Viewing<\/h2>\n<p>While you find your excel file cannot be opened, it means it is locked for viewing. The best way to unlock it should be <strong>removing open password from excel file<\/strong> and you could open it at any time without password requirement.<\/p>\n<p>For excel file *.xls format, you could directly remove its open password with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/excel-password-remover.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iSunshare Excel Password Remover<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For excel file *.xlsx format, only after open password is recovered with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/excel-password-recovery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iSunshare Excel Password Genius<\/a>, you can remove forgotten open password after opening excel file In MS Excel.<\/p>\n<p>More details about this topic, you can refer to article relating to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/excel-password\/remove-forgotten-password-from-excel-files.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>removing forgotten password from excel files<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"part2\">Part 2: How to Unlock Excel File Locked for Editing<\/h2>\n<p>When your excel file is read-only after opening, it must be locked for editing by you or another user before. But don\u2019t worry, because you can remove the editing restrictions just with software, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/workbook-unprotect-genius.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iSunshare Workbook Unprotect Genius<\/a>. It will remove all sheet password, workbook password and read-only password at once.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1: Install iSunshare Workbook Unprotect Genius full version on computer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Besides full version, surely there is also trial version provided for users free. However, Workbook Unprotect Genius trial version here only allows you to add password protected excel file (*.xlsx).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2: Run it and import password protected excel file locked for editing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Make sure the location of your password protected excel file locked for editing. And click <strong>Open<\/strong> button on Workbook Unprotect Genius, then select locked excel file to import into iSunshare software.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/import-excel-file-locked-for-editing.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4397\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"495\" height=\"339\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4397 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/import-excel-file-locked-for-editing.png\" alt=\"import excel file locked for editing\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/import-excel-file-locked-for-editing.png 495w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/import-excel-file-locked-for-editing-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While excel file is *.xls format, please convert it into *.xlsx firstly, and then you can successfully add excel file locked for editing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3: Click on &#8220;Remove Password&#8221; button and regain editor privileges.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now with one click on &#8220;<strong>Remove Password<\/strong>&#8220;, and in about one second, you would see sheet password, workbook password and read-only password are all removed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/remove-password-from-locked-excel-file.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4398\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"495\" height=\"339\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4398 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/remove-password-from-locked-excel-file.png\" alt=\"remove password from locked excel file\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/remove-password-from-locked-excel-file.png 495w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/remove-password-from-locked-excel-file-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Confirm and you would successfully get unprotected excel file after unlocking locked excel file.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/successfully-unlock-locked-excel-file.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4399\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"495\" height=\"339\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4399 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/successfully-unlock-locked-excel-file.png\" alt=\"successfully unlock excel file locked for editing\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/successfully-unlock-locked-excel-file.png 495w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/successfully-unlock-locked-excel-file-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/excel-password\/how-to-unprotect-excel-workbook-without-password.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to Unprotect Excel Workbook without Password<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/excel-password\/forgot-excel-2010-2013-workbook-password.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forgot Workbook Excel 2010\/2013\/2016 Password | How to Do<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/excel-password\/bypass-excel-password-protected-file-password.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to Bypass Excel Password Protected File Password<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/remove-or-disable-read-only-in-excel-file\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to Remove or Disable Read Only in Excel File (XLS\/XLSX)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we know, MS Excel has a protection feature that everyone could protect excel file by locking it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-office-documents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4391"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6375,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391\/revisions\/6375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}