{"id":1402,"date":"2023-07-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.softwarepro.org\/blog\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2024-03-28T16:47:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T11:17:23","slug":"vba-code-to-unlock-a-locked-excel-sheet-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.softwarepro.org\/blog\/vba-code-to-unlock-a-locked-excel-sheet-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Know VBA Code to Unlock a Locked Excel Sheet Effortlessly"},"content":{"rendered":"

What are the ways to learn the VBA Code to unlock a locked Excel sheet 2016, 2013, 2010?\u00a0Microsoft Excel is widely used by users to store crucial information. But, then users keep their important safe and secure they protect it with the help of password. This is the reason due to which, on most of the workplaces Excel worksheets containing data are secured from passwords.<\/p>\n

It is a normal business requirement of the users to share worksheets with other people and send it to some other user outside the organization. In all such situations, users always want to protect their worksheets from being changed like deleting and moving of data. Therefore, users always lock Excel sheet with password.<\/p>\n

But, this might happen that you are in a situation where you either forget or lose password of protected Excel sheet. At this point, what you will do to get everything in your hands? There are number of users who look for the VBA code to open the file. Therefore, to make this task easy for the users, multiple ways to unprotect Excel sheet. After this, it becomes easy for you to modify the document without type of restriction.<\/p>\n

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Note<\/strong>: You can use an expert-recommended solution<\/a><\/strong> which is capable of resetting the password on a VBA project and generate a new one to unlock the file.<\/p>\n

Quick Steps to VBA Code to Unlock a Locked Excel\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Step1:<\/strong> Launch the installed software on your system.
\nStep2:<\/strong>Now, click on the Add File option to insert the protected file.
\nStep3:<\/strong>Select VBA Files. Click on the Open button.
\nStep4:<\/strong>Press the reset button to unlock the VBA password file.
\nStep5:<\/strong>Eventually, the reset process was completed successfully. Click OK.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

How to Find VBA Code to Unlock a Locked Excel Sheet 2016, 2013?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The most common and frequent search over the internet is how to use VBA code to unlock a locked Excel workbook? In order to know about the same, go through the section below:<\/p>\n

In the case of Microsoft Excel 2010 or below versions, you can unprotect the password-protected Excel sheet with VBA code by following the steps below:<\/p>\n

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  1. To start the process, you need to open Excel document and move to locked sheet<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Note:<\/strong> Password-protected sheet must be active to run macro.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    2. After that, press Alt + F11<\/strong> key in order to open Visual Basic Editor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    3. Then, right-click on name of the workbook from the left pane. From the context<\/strong> menu, choose Insert<\/strong> >> Module<\/strong> option for VBA code to unlock a locked Excel sheet 2016, 2013, 2010, etc.<\/p>\n

    4. Here, a window will appear. Simply paste the code given below in that window:<\/p>\n

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    5. After that, you can either press F5<\/strong> key or click on the Run<\/strong> button from the toolbar and wait for few minutes<\/p>\n

    6. Now, the macro will provide you the cracked password that is not actual password but work for sure. It is some combination of A\u2019s and B\u2019s. There is no need to remember this fake password or use it anywhere else. You have to click on the OK<\/strong> button simply and your Excel sheet will be unlocked.<\/p>\n

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    Points to Remember:<\/h3>\n