How to recover lost worksheet protection password in Excel?
We constantly set passwords to protect some important worksheets from being destroyed or modified by others. But if you forget your passwords, how could you do ? fortunately, Excel supports some VBA code to recover your lost worksheet protective covering password. You can deal with this problem as this :
Recover lost worksheet protection password in Excel with VBA code
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Recover lost worksheet protection password in Excel with VBA code
The following VBA code can help you to promptly cancel your original passwords in a worksheet .
1. Open your worksheet which has been protected before.
2. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys, and it opens the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window .
3. Click Insert > Module, and paste the take after code in the Module Window .
VBA code: recover lost worksheet protection password
Sub PasswordRecovery()
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
4. then click F5 key to run this code, and a motivate corner will pop out, click OK to close it, and your passwords of the protected worksheet will be canceled at once .
Notes:
1. With this code, you precisely only recover one worksheet protection password at a time, if there are multiple protect worksheets, you need to apply this code one by one.
2. The above code comes from hypertext transfer protocol : //excelzoom.com/2009/08/how-to-recover-lost-excel-passwords/ .
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The Protect Worksheets utility of Kutools for Excel can help you protect multiple worksheets in bulk with the lapp password. It besides provides the utility to unprotect these worksheets at the lapp time. Download the full feature
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