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12 March 2007, 10:16 PM

T4molie

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Password Protected Word Document

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Does anyone know how to gain access to a password protected word doc that has been protected from being opened?

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Andy

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12 March 2007, 10:37 PM

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Yes, there is a way to recover a lost or forgotten password in an MS
Word document. Check Google for password recovery tools.

You can download a simple tool from the web:

http://www.intertek.org.uk/downloads/word.html

but you may have to stump up some readies

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13 March 2007, 08:36 AM

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It could be possible to change the extension to '.txt' and get a somewhat garbled file with the text in it (but no formatting etc.)?

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13 March 2007, 10:07 AM

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Cheers for the replies guys... I shall investigate further

Andy

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13 March 2007, 12:37 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ru'

It could be possible to change the extension to '.txt' and get a somewhat garbled file with the text in it (but no formatting etc.)?

I was actually looking into this last night for him.. it would seem saving it as rtf and then back to doc removes the protection, but I couldn't quite get it right