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Passowrd protected MS Word document

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by mk1

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One of our employees has a Microsoft Word document which was password protected. Unfortunately this password has been forgotten. Is there any way to retrieve this password ?

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by syscokid

For Word 95 and lower, there were many free cracking tools because the password encryption wasn't so good.

Starting with Word 97, cracking passwords became much more difficult. I haven't found any free utilities. There are plenty of companies that will sell you tools or recover the password if you send it to them, like www.lostpasswords.com.

I'm not endorsing that product. A quick Google search on "recover word password" will bring up dozens of others.

by mk1

Unfortunately I am unable to purchase such software on this occasion. Freeware solution if possible would be more preferable

by happyharry

You can try out (for 30 days) Advanced Word 2000 Password Recovery ( personally I have tried the Excel version and it worked for all my other files except the one I really needed - this was due to data corruption however ). This can be found at www.elcomsoft.com/aw2000pr.html.
Good luck

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