By Jennifer | Last Updated
Currently, cyber security has become a hot topic, people are accustomed to setting passwords to protect office files, especially to prevent data leakage and tampering, people often protect Excel sheet with passwords.
However, people have to remember too many passwords in daily life, people will often forget the password. Don't worry, as long as you still have an impression of the password, you can unlock the password protected Excel file in short time based on the password information in your memory.
If you remember the following password information, then it will help you a lot to recover Excel password, you can set the relevant parameters with the help of tools to shorten the time to recover the Excel password.
It can be said that the more password information you remember above, the easier it will be to retrieve your Excel sheet password.
Here is a professional Excel password recovery tool recommended to you: iSunshare Excel Password Genius, it can help you based on part of the password information to speed up the recovery of passwords, and support all versions of Excel file types.
Click the Download button above to install the free trial version of Excel Password Genius. (The trial version can recover simple passwords with three or less three characters.)
Open the software, there are four recovery types you can choose. The Normal and Mask Recovery Types can set relevant parameters according to the password information you remember, such as password Range and Length, which can shorten the time of unlocking password-protected Excel files.
You can tick the Brute-force range options, which include All caps Latin, All small Latin, All digits, All special symbols, Space, and All printable. Here are some examples:
● Remember the password is digits.
Tick All digits.
● Remember the password is lowercase letters and uppercase letters.
Tick All caps Latin and All small Latin.
● Remember the password is digits and lowercase letters.
Tick All digits and All small Latin.
If you have no impression of the password at all, then you'll have to tick All printable, but that will take more time to unlock the password.
On the Normal Recovery type, you can enter the information you remember about your password in the Start from and End at boxes on the right.
Here are a few cases to show how to set the parameters:
● Remember at the end of the password is "sun".
Then type "sun" in the End at box.
● Remember that the beginning of the password is "excel" and the end is "sun", but not the middle.
Then type "excel" in the Start from box and "sun" in the End at box.
● Remember at the beginning and end of the password is "excel, sun", and a few special symbols in the middle.
Type "excel" in the Start from box and "sun" in the End at box. Then tick All special symbols on the left.
You can also set a fixed value for your password under the Length option.
For example, if you remember that your password length is 6 to 8, then you can set the Minimum password length to 6 and the Maximum password length to 8:
Mask recovery type. If you have some specific impressions of the password, such as remembering the length of the password is 8, and the password is something like: "excel????sun" (one "?" represents a character you don't know), you can type it into the Mask box directly, and you can tick the appropriate Brute-force range options.
After selecting the recovery type and setting parameters suitable for you, click the Open button to import the Excel file you want to unlock the password, the file address will appear in the box of Encrypted File.
Then click the Start button to recover the Excel file password, and the decryption result page will pop up, you can copy the password for free or open the file directly.
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