Overview By default, Excel activates certain “protected view” settings. This is meant to prevent you from opening an potentially infected file downloaded from the Internet, sent to you in an Email, etc. The reality, however, is that it typically ADDS an additional step to opening many Excel files that you receive.
This of course begs the inquiry “How do I Turn Off protected view in Excel 2016?”
Open Excel, select the “File” menu option. Select “Trust Center” and click on “Trust Center Settings”. Next, select “Protected View” and un-check the desired items ( all three if you use Outlook for email ).
This begs the question “How to open a protected worksheet in Excel?”
Step 1 : Open the Excel workbook that contains the protected worksheet in Excel. Step 2: You should see a tab with a list of the sheets at the bottom of the workbook. Go ahead and right-click on the protected sheet (a locked sheet will often have a padlock icon attached to the name) to open the context menu.
Another frequent question is “How do I remove a protected workbook in Excel?”.
To remove the workbook protection, open the protected workbook, and click the ‘Protect Workbook’ button (option would be highlighted in gray color) under the Review tab. Type the password in the Unprotect Workbook prompt box and save the workbook.
How to unprotect or unprotect sheet in Microsoft Excel 2016?
Step 1: Go to Review tab & click on Unprotect Sheet. Step 2 : As soon as you click on Unprotect it will ask you to enter the same password which you have typed while protecting the sheet. Step 3: After the password is entered click on OK.
How to open a file in protected view?
The file was opened in Protected View by using the Open in Protected Viewoption – When you see the message in Protected View that says “This file was opened in Protected View . Click for more details.”, you chose to open the file in Protected View.
Another thing we asked ourselves was, what is protected view in SharePoint?
One source stated Protected View is a read-only view where most editing functions are disabled until the user enables editing in the file.
How do I unlock a password protected sheet in Excel?
If your worksheet was not protected with a password, clicking the ‘Unprotect Sheet’ option is enough to unlock your sheet. When your password-protect your Excel workbook, you can’t change the structure of the workbook, such as add, move, rename, or delete worksheets, and view hidden sheets.
Enter the password and click OK. If the password is correct, the sheet will become un protected . If you don’t know the password, see the Using Google Sheets method. This method lets you upload the file to Google Sheets, which removes all protections added in Excel.
Another query we ran across in our research was “How to unprotected the workbook structure in Excel without knowing the password?”.
Now you unprotected the workbook structure in Excel without knowing the password. You can unprotect the Excel workbook safely without a password by changing the file extension and manipulating its constituents.
This begs the query “How to unprotect a worksheet If I forgot password?”
Open the worksheet you forgot password to unprotect. Then enter Macro editor with Alt +F11. In VBA project, double click the sheet you need to unprotect from the menu listing in the left or on the top. This will open the general declarations page for the sheet.