Recover Microsoft Excel Password

How to Recover Microsoft Excel Password : Microsoft Office is mostly famous for MS word and MS excel. The main reason why these two applications are famous is that they can easily handle day to day official in the uttermost easement. Microsoft Excel also comes with severe security to protect your file and hence you set up a password for your file that will encrypt that data and the information will be only available to the individual who knows the password.

But, if you have multiple excel files and you setup a new password for every one of them to keep the data private and confidential then there is a high chance that you may forget the password of any file by accident once in a while. On the other hand, you may download several excel files from the Internet that may be password protected, and you need to access the file desperately.

How to Recover Microsoft Excel Password in Two Ways

In either case, it will be a very frustrating and pedantic feeling knowing that you can’t access the file just because it is encrypted with a password. But never fear, we also come up with good ideas and solutions to this kind of issues, and in this short tutorial, we will show you how to recover forgotten excel password and gain access to the file normally.

Method #1: Recover Excel Password using CrackIt

CrackIt is popular freeware that is used to recover Microsoft Office files like documents and excels. It is totally free to use and very smaller in size. It can recover passwords up to 4 characters long, so if you are using a password longer than that then skip to the next method.

Step 1. Download the CrackIt from the official website and install it on your computer.

Step 2. From the “Document Name” option, upload the password protected file and open it.

Step 3. Select the alphabets that might be used in the document to protect it.

Step 4. Then click on “CrackIt” option and wait until the password is recovered.

Cons –

1. Only works with Microsoft Excel 97 and 2000.
2. Can crack up to 4 characters long password only.
3. Not safe since the website has malware in it.
4. Not recommended if you are using a confidential document since it may corrupt your excel file.

Method #2: Recover Excel Password using Office Password Rescuer

Office Password Recovery is a professional Microsoft Office files password remover tool developed by UUkeys to recover the passwords from all kind of office files such Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access and Outlook. It offers several types of password resetting options like Brute-Force Attack, Brute-Force with Mass Attack, Smart and Dictionary attacks. It is very fast to use and takes less than few minutes to recover your Excel password.

Let us demonstrate how this software works so that you guys can understand this better.

Step 1. Download and install the software on your computer or laptop and launch it to see the main user interface of this program.

Step 2. Click on “Open” once and select the password-protected file that you wish to recover the password for. Alternatively, you can click on file followed by open to locate the file.

Step 3. Next, choose an attack type that you want to use to recover your password. The tool offers four kinds of attack types including brute force attack, mask attack, smart attack, and dictionary attack. Choose the appropriate option, but it is recommended to use the smart attack if you have lots of symbols and special characters in your password.

Step 4. Then choose attack settings and let the software know what is currently present in the password like alphabets, upper and lower cases, special symbols and so on. If you are not sure which option to choose from, then it is recommended to select all the options from the list.

Step 5. Finally click on “Start” to initiate the password recovery process and wait until the tool cracks the password of your excel file.

Tip: Kindly be patient, since this may take several minutes depending on the length of the password.

Step 6. When the password is finally recovered then it will be shown on the main interface of the software. You can copy it directly or write it down on a piece of a paper.

That’s all. You have successfully recovered the password of your Excel file.

Conclusion:

It is always recommended to use a third party software like Office Password Rescuer to unlock your Excel or any other Office files password if you forgot since most of the free and online services are not safe at all. Especially, if your file is private and confidential, then you should never take the risk as that may destroy your file completely. On a different note, if you forget the password of your Word documents or Outlook or PowerPoint files then you can use the same software to crack the password as well. Hopefully, you guys enjoyed and found this article useful.