How to Remove Passwords from Protected Microsoft Word Documents
Here's the scenario. The person you replaced at your new office desk created a form in Microsoft Word and password-protected it. To make matters worse, the person who created the form is now: 1) unreachable, 2) in the hospital, 3) in jail, or something even more bizarre. How to remove the password? Well, in order to remove a password, you usually need to know what the password is. That is the challenging part. I found a fix for Excel today, which is to just install Apache Open Office and open the Excel file in Open Office Calc, then go to the Tools>>Protect Document and un-check "Protect Document" and/or "Protect Sheet." This un-protects the document, which can then be re-saved as an Excel file and re-opened in Excel without the protection.
In Microsoft Word 2010, for example, this method didn't work as well for me in Open Office Writer. Instead, it opened as a "Read Only" file in OpenOffice. So, I had to look elsewhere for a solution. The good news is that I have found a solution which works. I went to Jim's Blog. The solution will require that you save the file as an .RTF document and then use NotePad to do the removing of the password protection. I don't know Jim (yet), but I tip my hat to him for figuring out a solution to a problem that has plagued secretaries and other office workers for a very long time. I hope this solution helps you too.
In Microsoft Word 2010, for example, this method didn't work as well for me in Open Office Writer. Instead, it opened as a "Read Only" file in OpenOffice. So, I had to look elsewhere for a solution. The good news is that I have found a solution which works. I went to Jim's Blog. The solution will require that you save the file as an .RTF document and then use NotePad to do the removing of the password protection. I don't know Jim (yet), but I tip my hat to him for figuring out a solution to a problem that has plagued secretaries and other office workers for a very long time. I hope this solution helps you too.
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