For Microsoft Windows users who need to remove security provisions from an Excel file, follow these steps: Open Excel on your computer. Select the Excel file you want to unprotect.

With that, the cached Excel files are wiped away easy. While you're in the Cache Settings, you can also use the options there to control how long Excel holds onto cached files for.

Removing hidden metadata information from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is not difficult if you follow the steps laid out here.

Protected and unprotected cells look the same in a spreadsheet. To delete all unprotected cells, you must select all of them at once, which can be easily done by using the Find and Replace feature.

How to delete a file being used by another program Here are some practical ways to dodge the pop-up and delete files that are in use by a program on your Windows PC.

If there are many blank rows in your Excel sheet, you can delete them and tidy up the document using the "Find and Select" feature. Here's how.