This quick guide covers how to unprotect Excel in Python. It discusses the environment setup, step-by-step process, and a runnable sample code to unlock Excel file in Python. Moreover, you do not need any in-depth knowledge about different Excel formats like the structure of XLSX or XLS files, or any encryption algorithms as the few API calls will suffice.

Steps to Unprotect Excel in Python

1. Prepare the environment to work with Aspose.Cells for Python via Java to unprotect Excel
2. Load the protected Excel file using the Workbook class
3. Remove the password protection with the unprotect() method
4. Write the output Excel file

The above steps summarize how to unlock Excel file in Python using a couple of simple API calls. Firstly, load the protected source Excel file and remove the password protection while specifying the password. Finally, write the output Excel workbook to any file path, or a stream as per your requirements.

Code to Unprotect Excel File in Python

This code snippet can be used to develop an Excel password remover in Python. It majorly works with the Workbook class to load the source file, then unprotect it and subsequently save the generated file. You may also invoke the other variation of the unprotect method to remove the password from a shared workbook.

In this article, we have learned how to remove password from Excel in Python. However, if you want to protect an Excel file with a password then read how to Password Protect an Excel file in Python.