Microsoft Word Document: Protection Problem

[Creag]

I am hoping someone (with greater skill in this regard) can give me some ideas on "cracking" this problem.

A document which was created some time back (and password protected) was created with active fields in it for user capture. Unfortunately the document has gone out of date and needs to be be amended. As it is has been protected, I am unable to edit/amend it.

Note: for what it's worth )), it is a legitimate document (owned by my company).

Any advice would be appreciated.

I would hate to recreate the document from scratch, as that would be a significant amount of unnecessary work

Thanks in advance.
McT

 

[KleinBoontjie]

Google: "Word password Recovery tools"

 

[Creag]

Google: "Word password Recovery tools"

As simple as that

Googled. Some nice ideas. Will look at these tonight. Always nervous of downloading this sort if thing in the office.

 

[KleinBoontjie]

At work we tell people that it can't be done.

 

[AfricanTech]

I've used the elcomsoft one successfully in the past.

It's a bit pricey but then again, factor in the cost of your time.

Mostly found the free ones useless (but that was a couple of years ago so it may be better now)

 

[Creag]

At work we tell people that it can't be done.

It's what my IT and Marketing people told me.

I have learnt that they cannot be trusted. Ever! :twisted:

Therefore me looking/searching for a way

I've used the elcomsoft one successfully in the past.

It's a bit pricey but then again, factor in the cost of your time.

Mostly found the free ones useless (but that was a couple of years ago so it may be better now)

Yeah, a once off purchase, but then I keep the product/software and get the job done in no time and look like the hero of the day

 

[KleinBoontjie]

It's because of End User policies. The software needed to hack the password isn't recommended by Microsoft and thus my employer doesn't want the software installed on the network.

 

[Fudzy]

It's because of End User policies. The software needed to hack the password isn't recommended by Microsoft and thus my employer doesn't want the software installed on the network.

Yeah most AVs will bleat at 'hacking tools'

If it wasn't for the integrated forms I've found the easiest way of unprotecting a document is saving it as an .rtf then open it in Wordpad, save somewhere else (as an .rtf) still and tada, password gone.

 

[Creag]

It's because of End User policies. The software needed to hack the password isn't recommended by Microsoft and thus my employer doesn't want the software installed on the network.

Therefore me doing this at home and not through servers, work networks.

Yeah most AVs will bleat at 'hacking tools'

If it wasn't for the integrated forms I've found the easiest way of unprotecting a document is saving it as an .rtf then open it in Wordpad, save somewhere else (as an .rtf) still and tada, password gone.

Will try before going the "hacking" route.

 

[web_dude]

I've used the elcomsoft one successfully in the past.

It's a bit pricey but then again, factor in the cost of your time.

Mostly found the free ones useless (but that was a couple of years ago so it may be better now)

I used this one sucessfully as well. Elcomsoft Advanced Office Password Recovery.

It actually didn't recover the password, it just remove it.

 

[Creag]

Well all options I tried last night failed. I am going to have to see if I cannot find any other programmes to do this.