Programmatically remove protection from worksheets

You can programmatically remove protection from a Microsoft Office Excel worksheet.

Applies to: The information in this topic applies to document-level projects and VSTO Add-in projects for Excel. For more information, see Features available by Office application and project type.

The following example uses the variable getPasswordFromUser, which contains a password obtained from the user.

1. Call the Unprotect method of the worksheet and pass in the password, if necessary. This example assumes that you are working with a worksheet named Sheet1.

   • C#
   • VB

   Globals.Sheet1.Unprotect(getPasswordFromUser);
   

1. Call the Unprotect method of the active worksheet and pass in the password, if necessary.

   • C#
   • VB

   ((Excel.Worksheet)Application.ActiveSheet).Unprotect(getPasswordFromUser);
   

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