How to Remove Password From Excel Protected Sheets?

People safeguard sensitive data on excel sheets by password protecting them. Password protection is a good option for people who do not want to share their critical data with others. But sometimes, when you are working with a team, you need to share the data. And if you are working on a password-protected excel file, then you can’t just send that file over to your teammate or friend. First, you need to unprotect the excel file or sheet and then send it over to someone else.

There are several ways to remove the password from protected Excel sheets, and here in this article, we will see how you can do it using Microsoft Excel. We will also take a look at few other ways to remove passwords from password-protected excel files. So without any further ado, let’s get into it.

How to Remove Password From Excel Protected Sheets?

Before getting into the entire process of removing the password, you need to determine whether the entire excel file is encrypted or if it’s only a sheet within the workbook that’s protected. To determine that, you need to open the excel file. If you can open it up and view the data in it, but you can’t edit the data in it, then you can be sure that only one worksheet in the Excel workbook is password-protected. But if you see a pop-up that asks for a password and says that the file is protected, you can be sure that the entire file is encrypted.