Need to Remove Password on Word Document

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.

Lost User

Really? What if he is trying to access his file, but he forget the password ? What if the file he downloaded from the Internet and it was locked ? . . There are a million of reasons to help him. On the other hand, What else Could be in that file ? - a list of all gmail, facebook accounts ? - or may be codeproject servers passwords ? - or me be this file is belong to the CIA, all some Russian military, with nuclear launch codes ? Another million of reasons to avoid, and help me. And Now We care about the world of computer to be safe ? Look around, on the Internet it's a corrupted world!, Look at our self, see code from here and there copy that, steal that ? Do you think that any developer you ever know ? would care about license ? Show me any computer user read the agreement of any software, and press cancel ? And Yet We care ( Oh Noooooooo not the Word 2010 Password Noooo its wrong ) P.S: There are dozen of applications down there just too do as he ask, only what he is ask! , More over if he was not sure about his file, he would not ask about it here in codeproject or at least he would not do it with his REAL NAME this guy was asking innocent, hopefully get a manual solution for what he had ask, As you know developers had there ways.

Lost User

Really? What if he is trying to access his file, but he forget the password ? What if he downloaded the file from the Internet and it was locked ? . . There are a million of reasons to help him. On the other hand, What else Could be in that file ? - a list of all gmail, facebook accounts ? - or may be codeproject servers passwords ? - or me be this file is belong to the CIA, for some Russian military, with nuclear launch codes ? Another million of reasons to avoid, and help me. And Now We care about the world of computer to be safe ? Look around, on the Internet it's a corrupted world!, Look at our self, Show me any computer user read the agreement of any software, and press cancel ? And Yet We care ( Oh Noooooooo not the Word 2010 Password Noooo its wrong ) P.S: There are dozen of applications down there just too do as he ask, only what he is ask! , More over if he was not sure about his file, he would not ask about it here in codeproject or at least he would not do it with his REAL NAME this guy was asking innocent, hopefully get a manual solution for what he had ask, As you know developers had there ways.

Roger Wright

I don't know a whole lot about Word - I use it, but I don't like it much. Specifically, I don't know if it imposes its own security on documents, or delegates that authority to Windows. If the latter, though, you might try copying it to a new folder which has Windows permissions set to "Everyone," then using the Properties menu for the folder, select the option to propagate permissions to all documents in the folder. Alternatively, you might format a USB device to FAT32, then store it there - FAT32 has weak or nearly non-existent security, and Windows NTFS permissions will not be preserved. Of course, if Word implements its own security internally, you're probably screwed...

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Rajesh R Subramanian

There's no such tool or .bat file which will magically "remove" password from a protected document.

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Rajesh R Subramanian

Smart Arab wrote:

What if he is trying to access his file, but he forget the password ?

Then, he's a dumb coot beyond salvation.

Smart Arab wrote:

What if he downloaded the file from the Internet and it was locked ?

This makes absolutely no sense.

Smart Arab wrote:

There are a million of reasons to help him.

People offer help without needing as many reasons, but asking 'help' to bypass encryption with a .bat file is just dense. Nobody can help.

Smart Arab wrote:

with his REAL NAME

Smart Arab wrote:

this guy was asking innocent

Really? REAL NAME? That's a newly created account, and you already seem to know an awful lot about him, don't you? :)

Smart Arab wrote:

There are dozen of applications down there just too do as he ask, only what he is ask! ,

English, please.

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Brady Kelly

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

Smart Arab wrote:

What if he downloaded the file from the Internet and it was locked ?

This makes absolutely no sense.

It makes sense, but then it means that the file wasn't meant to be distributed on the internet.

0bx

Yes, it might be, but we don't know because he doesn't even bother to share us his story. Nor did he show any cooperation to solve his own problem, like sharing the information on how far he has gotten so far; assuming that he even bothered to google for an answer before coming here, which I doubt. But if you want to take up his cause, why haven't tried to find the solution yourself instead of trying to guild-trip others into helping him? I think you're both too lazy.

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J4amieC

Roger Wright wrote:

if Word implements its own security internally

It does.