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It is crucial to protect a company or individual sensitive data in today’s highly connected world. Excel documents containing data such as payroll information, trading algorithms, confidential information or company secrets should always be password protected alongside normal document protection. However, these seem not far enough. We can do nothing but feel anxiety if the data is locked in Excel.
For this reason, some professional teams designed Excel password rescuer tools to recover Excel passwords for those who have lost or forgotten them. See Method 4.
Steps
Setting a Password for an Excel File (taking Excel 2007 for example)
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Click on the Office button, select Prepare, and then choose Encrypt Document
Enter a password in the Password box and then press OK.Advertisement
Re-enter the previous password to confirm and then press OK.
Save the password and the MS Excel 2007 document.(Note: As Microsoft advises, you must not forget the password or you will not be able to get into the document. If you forget, you have to turn to third-party software like Excel password rescuer for help.)
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Press the Unprotect your file button
Press the Browse button, select your protected spreadsheet and click Next Step
Select recommended Remove password option
Wait a few seconds while your password is being removed
If your file is small, it will be unprotected for free!
For bigger files you’ll be able to see the first rows of all your spreadsheets. To get the full document, you’ll need to enter the license key.
Recovering MS Excel password with Dossoft Excel Password Rescuer
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Download Excel Password Rescuer and install it.
Click Open and select the file of which the password is lost.
Choose an attack type to recover Excel password.
Attack settings.
Click Start on the left top. When the operation is finished, you will recover the lost Excel password successfully.
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- Excel Password Rescuer is one of the most popular Excel password recovery tools that can recover Excel password from Excel 97 to Excel 2013. Meanwhile, it can open your file without any deficiency.Thanks
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