How to set and cancel the 'open password' of Excel table?

The "Open Password" of Excel tables is an important security protection function that can effectively prevent unauthorized users from accessing file contents. PHP editor Xiaoxin will introduce you in detail how to set and cancel the opening password in Excel to help you better protect and manage your files.

How to set and cancel the password to open the Excel table?

First, open the Excel table, click the [File] option on the menu bar, and then select [Information] - [Protect Workbook] - [Encrypt with Password].

After the dialog box pops up, enter the password you want to set in the blank column, and click [OK] to save the file. The password to open the Excel table is set.

When you open the Excel table again, you will be prompted "Password protected" and you need to enter a password to open the table.

We can also use the "save as" method to set the "open password" of the Excel table.

Similarly open the Excel table, click the [File] option, then select [Save As], and then select the save path on the right.

After the dialog box pops up, select [General Options] in the [Tools] option below. The file name can be left unchanged and the original form can be directly overwritten.

After the dialog box pops up again, enter the password you want to set in [Open Permission Password]. After confirming the input again, the "Open Password" of the Excel table will be set.

How to cancel "Open Password" if the password is no longer required? First, we need to look at whether we need to disable "Open Password" if we remember the password or if we forget the password.

Some friends may be confused. Do you need to remove the password if you remember it? Isn’t it better to just enter the password? In fact, what I'm talking about here is remembering the password, but I don't want to have to enter the password every time I open the Excel spreadsheet, so I want to eliminate the "enter password" step.

Let’s talk about the first situation first, how to do it if you want to eliminate the “enter password” step.

After opening the Excel table with a password, follow the setting steps and click [File] - [Information] - [Protect Workbook] - [Encrypt with Password]. At this time, the dialog box for entering the password will also pop up.

You can see that there is already a password in the password column, which is the password set before. We need to delete the password, turn it into a blank space, and then click [OK] to save the form. In this way, the "open password" of the Excel form will be lifted, and there will be no need to enter a password when opening the form again.

This method is also applicable to the "Open Password" set with "Save As".

Let’s talk about the second situation. If you forget the “open password” of Excel, can you still remove the password?

The Excel form cannot remove the password if it is forgotten, because the form cannot be opened without the password. In this case, we can use other tools. Although it cannot directly remove the "open password", it can be used to try to retrieve the original password.

For example, the Pepsi Niu Excel password recovery tool. The [Retrieve Password] module in the tool can help us retrieve the "Open Password" of the Excel table. It provides 4 retrieval methods. After importing the Excel table, select one of them. Just follow the prompts after one or more methods.

Tool link: Pepsi Niu Excel Password Recovery Tool

Then, wait for the password to be retrieved.

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