okay so I have a password-protected
excel file when I try and edit a excel
it gives you this error saying that it's
protected but I kind of want to break
into this and open it up so what I'm
gonna have to do is just close this down
I have it saved to my desktop so I just
want to do a new folder and drag this
into here and double-click on the folder
so now you want to go to organize folder
and search options view and then scroll
down a little bit and you'll see hide
extensions for known file types you want
this unchecked and then hit apply so
right now you'll see that the extension
is xlsx we're just going to change this
to dot zip and hit enter it's going to
ask you if you want to change it so yes
so now it's a zip file you can open that
up I'm winning I'm using J zip you can
use any kind of archive program that you
want to use so click it Excel folder
worksheets and then sheet one is the one
I want to open up so I'm going to do
open up with notepad and this is giving
me all the code for that sheet so I'm
going to do word wrap so what you want
to look for is something that says like
password protection or sheet protection
so it's right here shoe protection
password this isn't actually the
password so you can't use this to open
up the document but what you can do is
just delete it and then save the file
close it down hit OK close that down and
we're just gonna change this back to the
X LSX hit OK and yes so now if I open it
up again it's still protected so you
just have to go to the review and click
unprotect sheet so I'm going to open up
edit in here and that's it you're all
good to go
you