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I have a user here who's Word document somehow got password protected, does anybody know how to get around this ?
Of course they have no idea what the password is and how it happened
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This works for Word 97:
Try saving the file under a different name. This newly-named file should not be password protected. After deleting the original file, you can rename the new file and give it the original file's name.
Let me know if this works. Good luck!
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Pogi thanks for the tip but it didn't work
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I'm on the right track but the wrong train...or is the right train but wrong track ?
ELCOMSOFT has a nifty program called AW97PR that determines lost passwords for Microsoft Word 97 and Word 2000 documents. It can also recover a write-protection password. (A separate utility is available for Word 7.0 or earlier.)
The program attacks the password with about 3 million passwords per minute. To speed things up, customize filters for passwords or stop a search and restart it where you left off.
http://www.elcomsoft.com/aw97pr.html
Hope that works, I haven't tried it but that tip just arrived in my email this morning. Timely, eh?
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The demo version AO97PR will only find your password if it is 4 characters or less... you have to pony up and buy it before it will find 5 or more characters in the password string.
Give it a try... maybe the unknown password is 4 characters or less.
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go here http://neworder.box.sk/box.php3?gfx=...ord%20crackers then scroll to the bottom, you'll see it.
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