Microsoft Excel is immensely popular for both professional and personal spreadsheet needs. Here are the steps for unprotecting your worksheet.

For a workbook composed of multiple spreadsheets, select Protect Workbook followed by Unprotect Workbook. Enter the Workbook password again when prompted and select OK to remove protections.

You can add or remove a password from your Excel spreadsheets through the File tab. You'll do it slightly differently on a Mac and PC.

To remove protection from the spreadsheet, open it in Excel, click the "Review" tab and then click "Unprotect Sheet" in the Changes group. Type the password into the Password field and click "OK." ...

At the file level, you can password protect an Excel workbook in two ways: You can determine who can get in and who can save changes.