Three steps to recover Excel 2007 password

Have you forgotten your Excel password for a workbook? Or has someone left your office and they did not to tell you the password of encrypted Excel document? If you’re stuck with an XLS file that you need to break its password, you can try out a utility that enables you regain access to your Excel file.

In Excel 2007, it is impossible to remove its password as in Excel 97-2003 by Office Password Breaker, you have to recover Excel password with a password recovery utility

Step 1: Before starting to recover Excel 2007 password, you should know the password type of your encrypted Excel file, thus you would find a workable solution faster.

MS Excel password has following types: Password to open the Worksheet, Password for Modifications, Worksheet Password, Workbook Password, and VBA Modules, among which, the first three ones are frequently used in Excel. In this article, we will mainly talk about how to recover Excel 2007 password to open file. Ways to retrieve other types of password have been discussed in other posts.

Step 2: Select a powerful Excel password recovery tool. Here we recommend Excel Password Unlocker, which works to recover Microsoft Excel passwords, enabling you to easily view the data in workbooks and sheets. It provides three types of password attack: brute-force attack, brute-force attack with mask, and dictionary attack. You can choose either attack according to your situation to effectively crack the password as short time as possible. In addition, this program is super easy-to-use with a straightforward user interface. Its password recovery speed is also at high rank in all password recovery tools, which enables you to quicken running process by using multiple-core CPU.

Step 3: Use Excel Password Unlocker. Click Open to import the Excel document that you want to decrypt, choose an attack type, set the options under attack way, and then begin recovering password.

The work to recover Excel 2007 password is a time-costing task, prepare enough time for its running.

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