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How to Recover Excel Password With Excel Password Recovery

Have you forgotten your Microsoft Excel file password and cannot open it? Don’t worry! Excel Password Recovery can help you quickly recover password for your Excel documents. It offers a professional set of features wrapped in a very user-friendly form that is easy to master. Now, let’s see how it works.

Step1. To select a lost excel password file you want to recover the password(s) for simply press the "Open" button (or select the "File | Open File" menu item) and browse for the appropriate file.

Open the lost excel password file

 

In the Open File Dialog, select the lost Microsoft Excel password file and click "Open".

Select the lost excel password file

Step2. Choose an attack type to recover Excel password.

There are four attack types in our program for you to recover your password. They are Brute-force Attack, Mask Attack, Dictionary Attack and Smart Attack.

Select an Attack to recover excel password

Step 3. Attack settings.

Option 1: If you choose Brute-force Attack or Mask Attack, the program will try all possible combinations in the specified Range.

Attack Settings with Excel Password Recovery

"Length" Settings
Minimal password length: Set the minimum possible length for the password.
Maximal password length: Set the maximum possible length for the password.

Password length settings with Excel Password Recovery

Option 2: If you choose Mask Attack, you should offer some password symbols which you can remember. A Password Mask must be defined to use Mask Attack.

Mask Attack with Excel Password Recovery

Option 3: If you choose Dictionary Attack, click "Dictionary" on the tabbar.

Dictionary Attack with Excel Password Recovery

"Dictionary" Settings:
Simply select the desired dictionary file. In addition, you can select an option "Smart mutations" or "Try all possible upper/lower case combinations"

Dictionary settings with Excel Password Recovery

Step 4. Click “Start” button(or select the "Attack | Start" menu item) to start the attack, then you will get your lost excel password.

Start recover excel password

Step 5. When you successfully recover excel password with Excel Password Recovery, the dialog box with passwords is displayed.

Success recover excel Password

 

Now you can instantly recover excel password: