Learn how to unprotect Excel sheets or workbooks without a password using this simple step-by-step guide. No software required!

Whether you’ve forgotten the password or received a protected file from someone else, unlocking an Excel spreadsheet without the password may seem like an insurmountable challenge.

This guide will show you how to safely unlock your password-protected documents — including PDFs, Word, and Excel files — using Wondershare Dr.Fone.

The password is very long, and is a random letter-number combination, if that matters. Version of office is 2007, and they're xlsx files, natch.