Need to Remove Password on Word Document

Adeeb Ali

Hi People, I have a Word Document 2010 and is password protected. I want to view the document but cannot view it. I tried various steps to remove the password but was not successful. Could anyone share me a tool or .bat file that will help me remove the Password.

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Pete OHanlon

Is there a reason you can't approach the document owner and ask them for the password?

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Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

I am seriously getting tired of answers on the Internet questioning the approach instead of giving the answer. However, if you had instead told the OP that this is the wrong place for software questions : ) And to answer with your question, every so often, in large corporate environments I do tend to find the mystical locked document that no one can edit and no one knows who originally created. So it is a legitimate question. Oh, and since I never vote 1's and feel bad about it, you can vote down my how to make a geek happy post : )

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fjdiewornncalwe

Adeeb Ali wrote:

Could anyone share me a tool or .bat file that will help me remove the Password.

That would equate to hacking something someone doesn't want hacked. If it is your own document then it is too bad that you forgot your password, but such is life sometimes. You may find something somewhere that can do the job, but I couldn't tell you where because personally I've never had the need. I also don't think it is something someone here will provide.

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wizardzz

Everything seems to be working as intended.

Brady Kelly

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

I am seriously getting tired of answers on the Internet questioning the approach instead of giving the answer.

Hell yes, me too. I often want to say, "I didn't ask for an elephanting consultation, I asked how to perform a task."

Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

Doesn't Open Office open them?

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AspDotNetDev

Maybe, if you provide the password...

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R Giskard Reventlov

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

I am seriously getting tired of answers on the Internet questioning the approach instead of giving the answer.

Yawn. Who died and made you the arbiter of all things IT? Besides, sometimes, questioning the approach is the right answer.

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Andrew Rissing

You can actually bypass the password on Word 2007+ documents fairly easily. See here.

Lost User

Give this software a try. http://www.elcomsoft.com/aopr.html[^]

0bx

change the extension to .zip; then 'extract' it in a new folder. In that folder there should be a file called "settings.xml". You can find the password in there, just remove it and save. Zip the files again and change back to the original extension. Wouldn't it be cool if that actually worked? :-\

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Pete OHanlon

There was an answer in there - you just didn't bother with it - the answer is "approach the owner". If there is no one in an organisation who can answer this question, then there is a fundamental problem in that organisation, or with the people in the organisation. However, I will defend your right to vote me a 1 as I couldn't care less about the vote itself. So your geek post is safe from me. (BTW - the alternative answer is hacking the document, and that's not something I'm comfortable recommending, so I'll stick with my original answer)

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

since I never vote 1's

Not accurate now, is it? You can univote with a clean conscience now.

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AspDotNetDev

Enter the password as "a". If that doesn't work, then try "b". once you get to "z", you can then try "0", and eventually move on to "9". You can then try special characters. You'll also want to try uppercase letters. You can then use that collection of digits as the base for your number system. You can then essentially count up in that number system using the characters from the first iteration. Once you enter the correct password, you can remove it. Could take a while...

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CPallini

:laugh: (Was about to try it).

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Lost User

While he doing that, may be you can reread this : Here[^]

lewax00

That almost sounds feasible, just based on the fact that they ARE zip files (at least .docx are, not sure about .doc).

AspDotNetDev

Which part, in particular, should I focus on?

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gavindon

while I see your point, in this case it was a legitimate question in my opinion. What if he is trying to get access to a doc he is not allowed to have? Just sayin .

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Andrew Rissing

Doc's are not, but anything with an 'x' at the end for Office 2007+ are zip files under the covers.