This article is intended to introduce three effective ways to remove Word password when you want to open password encrypted Word document. Word has no way of recovering document passwords. To change a document's password, you need the current password.

I found a solution to this issue. If you do a Save As on the document and save it as a file type Word Document (Not the 97-2003 version). Karaoke Revolution Party Rapidshare Library. This allows you to edit what you need done. Then you can save it back as a 97-2003 version to allow you to relock the document. Hope this helps. You can't do Save As on a document you can't open, so I don't understand what you are suggesting, exactly. If you are referring to a protected form, inserting it into a new, blank document (as suggested previously in this thread) will work.

Stefan Blom, Microsoft Word MVP. Yep, there is no way to unlock a password protected Word document without the password, unless you remove the encrypted password. How to remove the encrypted password? For Word 97-2003 document, you can try with the Cocosenor Office Password Remover App that can help to remove Word (*.doc) document password. For Word 2007-2016, you can try with the Cocosenor Word Password Tuner program that can help to recover word document protection password if you forgot the password. In this day of ransomware, I guess I would like to see some unbiased reviews before I turn something that sophisticated loose on my computer. I would also like to know more about the company that produces it.

I think this is likely spam. ImJosephs' only posts on his forum have been about passwords and many promote this product. That may simply mean that he is an expert on passwords and felt that was the area in which he can contribute. He has been a forum member for two months. How long would it take the program to recover the following password with no parts known? Need to have file opened to save as. What am i doing wrong?

If a file is protected by a password to open in versions of Word after Word 2003, and you do not have the password, you should not be able to open it. There is no way known to do it other than impractical brute force. Anyone claiming otherwise is suspect. If you elect to try something be VERY careful. By VERY careful I mean use an isolated dedicated computer, one used only for cracking this password that is not connected to the Internet or any other computers. Do not supply bank account or credit card information. Run any resulting file through a good virus checker.

Charles Kenyon Madison, WI. If the document is protected from opening using a password, you cannot use SaveAs to retitle it without having the password. Converted documents will always be inferior to a properly formatted native Word formatted document.

This is true whether the pdf is created by conversion from Word or by scanning. So far as I know, there is no conversion software from Word to pdf that preserves the entire native structure of the Word document. No pdf file contains that structure so conversion to Word will always be an approximation and will often have serious formatting anomalies such as using margin changes when indent changes would be using within Word. Conversions are better now than they were, but still far from perfect.

Charles Kenyon Madison, WI.