Forgot PowerPoint Password - How to Unlock a Password Protected PowerPoint File

If you have a PowerPoint presentation which is important to your study or work, create a strong password is a good way to protect your PowerPoint presentation from unauthorized opening and editing. However, you may forget the password for some reasons and cannot open it or modify the content. In this situation, Microsoft won’t help you unlock your password-protected PowerPoint file. This article will show you how to create a password to protect your PowerPoint file and give you a praticle method to unlock PowerPoint ppt/pptx file when forget the password.

Firstly, let’s see how to create a password to protect a PowerPoint 2016 file from unauthorized access. It is easy.

Step 1: When you complete editing your presentation, simply click Info from menu bar. Click “Protect Presentation” and select “Encrypt with Password”.

Step 2: When a dialog appears, type in a password twice and click OK.

Step 3: Click “Save” to save the protection. You will be asked to enter the password in next openning.

If you forget the password, you will be locked out of the presentation and cannot do anything on it. If you want to get back your slideshow from it, the password is needed.

Is there a way can unlock PowerPoint file without password? The answer is No, but you can use a password recovery tool to recover the password. Here I will show you a practical method to unlock a password protected PowerPoint file by recovering the password easily. In fact, there is a useful PowerPoint Password Recovery tool can recover lost password fast for PowerPoint ppx and pptx file encrypted in Office PowerPoint 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003, 2000 etc.

Follow the steps to unlock a password protected PowerPoint ppt/pptx file, easily open your protected PowerPoint presentation.

Step 1: Firstly, you need to download PowerPoint Password Rescuer and install it on your computer.

Step 2: Run the software, click Open button and then select your password-protected PowerPoint file to add it into the program.

Step 3: In order to recover the password in the fastest way. You may need to select an attacking type and configure the relevant settings.

Why do this? This program will adopt Normal type to recover a PowerPoint password effectively. However, if you still remember the basic information or part of your password, such as how long it is and what kind of characters are included, you can set password Range and Length options to accelerate the password recovery speed so you can unlock your PowerPoint file in the shortest time. More detailed you could read this: How to crack PowerPoint Password Fast.

Step 4: Click Start button to quickly recover PowerPoint password.

Step 5: Unlock password protected PowerPoint presentation with the password.

For a moment, the password will be recovered successfully and shown to you. Please copy the password and back up it.

Now you can unlock your PowerPoint presentation with the password. Double click your PowerPoint file, when “Enter password to open file” dialog appears, paste the password in the Password box and click OK.

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