Need to Remove Password on Word Document

AspDotNetDev

Which part, in particular, should I focus on?

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.

Johnny J

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

questioning the approach instead of giving the answer.

And not only the approach, also the intent. If I ask a question in a forum about something I need to know, I really don't care to get into a lengthy discussion about WHY I need to to do it and if it's really what I should do/want to do/etc... :mad: Some people should keep their eye on the ball. GOOD CALL, Ennis! Apart from that, I agree with you: The right answer would have been: Try another forum!

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Johnny J

Could be - could also just be that HE created the document a while ago and thought up the PERFECT password - which he - when it comes down to it - can even remember himself. That has never happened to you? It has to me. Heck, I can't even remember what I did last week. :confused:

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Kenneth Haugland

same goes in excel, anything with xlsx etc is a zip file...

Lost User

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

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

He didn't question the approach he suggested asking the person who created the document. It could well be that this guy has stolen a document containing the personal detail of everybody with Jr. in their name, so he can start hacking their bank accounts; just as soon as some damn fool tells him how to crack the password.

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Mark_Wallace

It might be possible to print it, depending on the security settings. Right-click, choose "Print".

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Lost User

0bx wrote:

I think you're both too lazy.

I post a solution, in previous post, But I think you're too lazy, to read it. And Guess what People in codeproject vote my post down, How Ironic! They don't want to help him. I like to share information here in CodeProject but really some members attitude, force me to rethink of my strategy. Sad but true....

Keith Barrow

Pete's was a perfeclty legitimate question IMO. The OP could well have a good reason for wanting to get into a spreadsheet, equally this could be an attempt to crack the security on something.

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Bassam Abdul Baki

Ditto! I know for Family.Show extensions, it works.

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Bassam Abdul Baki

Thanks! I did not know that.

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