In this video, I demonstrate how to remove a forgotten password from a password protected Excel file. This kind of protection either stops you from opening the Excel workbook altogether or prevents you from saving edits to the workbook by applying readonly status to the file.

To remove the file's password it is necessary to convert the Excel file to a zip folder. By extracting the contents of the zip folder you are able to edit the Workbook's xml files, which is where the code of the workbook's protection is stored. By deleting the relevant code, you get rid of the protection.

AS SOME OF YOU HAVE DISCOVERED THIS METHOD NO LONGER WORKS FOR EXCEL 365.
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