What should I do if the Excel worksheet is not protected but cannot be deleted?

What should I do if the Excel worksheet is not protected but cannot be deleted? Recently, a user asked this question. When using Excel software, he wanted to delete the worksheet but found that he could not delete it. Why couldn't he delete it even though it was not protected? In this regard, this article brings detailed solutions to share with everyone. If you are interested, take a look.

What should I do if the Excel worksheet is not protected but cannot be deleted?

1. We occasionally encounter Excel being unable to delete worksheets, even newly added sheet pages cannot be deleted. The delete option is grayed out.

2. Then let’s first check whether the protected workbook is enabled. If the protected workbook is enabled, we can click [Review]-[Protect Workbook] to cancel.

3. If a password is set when enabling protection, please enter the corresponding password here to cancel the protection.

4. After the above cancellation is completed, we can see that the workbook can be deleted normally.

5. Sometimes we will find that the above protected workbook is gray and cannot be processed according to the above operations.

6. This is because we have turned on revision in Excel, so click [Review]-[Revision] as shown.

7. The revision dialog box pops up, and we uncheck the button.

8. After unchecking the box as shown in the picture, click OK.

9. There will be a prompt after confirmation here, you can read it carefully, but it is generally not very important and our Excel data will not be lost (you can save a copy during the safe period for emergencies). We just select OK.

10. Let’s see now that the workbook can be deleted normally.

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