How to recover password protected MS Excel spreadsheet 2007?

The users set the password of the MS Excel spreadsheet by restricting unauthorized access, but sometimes the password creates problem while you are accessing the Excel spreadsheet when you forget or it gets lost. There are many tools which are available for resting the MS Excel 2007 password. Here is the best software that helps you in removing the MS Excel 2007 password which have different types if files with file extent such as xlsx, xlsm, xltx, etc. These file type are known as Open XML as these files contains XML files. You can see the XML documents make use of the Excel spreadsheet by changing the extension to .zip.

By editing the Open XML file you can remove the excel password. You can even follow the mentioned below steps to remove the password of password protected MS Excel file.

1. You must create password protected MS Excel File backup.
2. Change .xlsx file extension to .zip.
3. Then extract the content of the .zip file.
4. Then search for targeted sheets xml format. You will get it in ‘xl -> worksheets’ directory.
5. Then you need to open the xml file in the xml editor of the targeted sheet.
6. Now you need to remove the xml file by searching for the ‘sheetProtection’ word.
7. Then you need to save the edited xml file in the zip files.
8. You need to change the extensions of the. zip to .xlsx

Then you need to click on the spreadsheet and then need to open it normally, it will ask you for the password. This method will efficiently work with the MS Excel 2007 but you can make use of this method the higher versions of MS Excel. But if you have lower version of spreadsheet then you can make use of MS Excel File Repair Tool. It helps you to retrieve back deleted MS Excel data with the help of its comprehensive tool that is designed with the help of advanced algorithm for recovering all the data from corrupted spreadsheet document. It scans the spreadsheet in order to recover possible data which includes formulas, charts, clip art, tables, numbers, images, flow charts, text, worksheets, etc.

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• It recovers data structure, OLE objects, Unicodes characters, fields which includes hyperlinks (URLs), footnotes, headers etc.
• It recovers the data completely and maintains original formatting of file.
• It is capable in repairing XLS and XLSX files