Unlock Spreadsheets Using AI ChatGPT (Prompts + File included)

How to unlock your spreadsheets in Excel using the ChatGPT AI. This allows you to continue working on old spreadsheets when you forgot the password to the password protected worksheets or you forgot how to unhide xlveryhidden worksheets.

The best use-case for this, in my opinion, is when you are going through a large workbook of yours and simply want easy access to all of the data in it so that you can quickly evaluate it, troubleshoot errors, and continue working on it. ChatGPT simply does everything for you very quickly, and without the need for macros.

Before anyone complains about this tutorial, please note that Excel has NEVER been truly secure - the sheet protection is simply there to make it more difficult to break a worksheet, not to protect anything truly sensitive. You can still encrypt the workbook if you want - though, Excel is still not a secure format, even in that case.

AI Prompt to Unprotect a Worksheet

in this excel file make it so that I can work on the "SheetNameHere" worksheet

AI Prompt to Unhide all Worksheets

in this excel file show all hidden worksheets

AI Prompt to Allow Adding/Removing Worksheets

in this excel file, allow me to add and remove worksheets

AI Prompt to Unprotect and Unhide Everything

In the attached Excel file: make all worksheets editable, show all hidden worksheets, and allow me to add and remove worksheets from it. Provide me with an updated Excel file that meets these criteria.