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You want to open or modify some Word documents encrypted with password, but you cannot remember the password or do not know the password to unprotect the Word document, how do you unprotect the Word 2019/2016/2013/2007/2003 document without knowing password? Now, this page aims at helping you unprotect an encrypted or editing-restricted Word document.
We'll cover two ways to do this here: One method works in all Word files(.doc and .docx), and the other method will only work if the * .doc file is created in Word 2003 or earlier. Just choose the method as you need.
Word Password Refixer is a specialized tool that helps to recover the lost or unknown password for all types of word file that created by any version of MS Word program. With this tool, you are able to unprotect Word files without losing any data. You can try the software for free when the password is not longer than 3 characters.
1. Get Word Password Refixer tool and then install it on your computer.
2. Launch this program, click Open to add your encrypted Word file into it.
Tips: Click on Open in this program. Then, in the Open File dialog, navigate to the path to the encrypted Word 2016 document you want to unprotect, select it and click Open to add its file path into the software.
3. Select one password attack type and set relevant parameters if necessary.
When you select the Brute-force or Mask attack mode, this program will try every possible combination of character. To speed up the password recovery process, you need to set the proper Ranger options. The more accurate the information you can provide for each option, the better and faster the work will get done.
Tips: Generally, if you know something about the password, you can select Mask or Dictionary attack mode that can make the tool perform a higher performance on password recovery. In contrast, if you have no clue about what the password is, choose Smart attack is quite smart. And there is no settings on this attack.
4. Click the Start to start discovering password. Once password is revealed, click on Copy followed by Open.
When the Word program asks for the opening password, pasting recovered password to open it.
1. Click File -> Info tab and then click on Protect Document -> Encrypt with Password.
2. In the Encrypt Document dialog box, delete the password and click OK.
3. Press Ctrl + S to save this Word 2016 document.
Next time you can open the Word document without password required. Using the Word Password Refixer program you can quickly recover .docx file password as well as .doc file password from Office Word 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007, and 2003 files.
If you need to open a password protected word .doc file but you cannot remember the password, you can unprotect it with the Word Password Remover program. Here's how to remove Word open password easily.
Step 1: Download the Word Password Remover program and then install it on your computer.
Step 2: Start the Word Password Remover program. Click the Open to select your protected Word file, and click Remove Password button to start removing password from that Word document. All the removing process will take about 15 seconds.
Once Word Password Remover has successfully removed protection from your document, you can access into this document directly without asking for password.
If you have a Word 2016 document is editing-restricted by a password, but you don't know password to modify it, you still can clear the password and unprotect the document. Just do as follows. We assume that we have the password to open encrypted Word file.
iSumsoft Word Protection Refixer is an easy-to-use utility that allows you to remove editing restrictions from MS Word 2003-2019 documents with a simple click, so that you can easily unprotect the Word document.
1. Download the Word Protection Refixer tool and install it on your computer.
2. Run the Word Protection Refixer program. Click the "Add" button to add the restricted Word file, then click "Remove Password" button. You can see all the restrictions in the file will be deleted after a few seconds.
Step 1: Open the editing restricted Word file. Then click File -> Save As and choose location where to save this document.
Step 2: In the Save As dialog, click the drop-down button next to Save as type, select Rich Text Format(*.rtf), and click Save to save this Word 2016 document in .rtf format.
Step 3: Close the current document.
Step 4: Right-click on the *.rtf document and select Open with - > Notepad to open it in a Notepad.
Step 5: In the Notepad file, press Ctrl + F to bring up the Find dialog box. Then type passwordhash and click Find Next. Then it will immediately find and highlight the passwordhash word. Delete the string that follows (The string may be very long and it ends until you see a "}") so that the password that restricts editing can be cleared. Then Press Ctrl + S to save this Notepad. Then close it.
Step 6: Re-open the *.rtf document with Microsoft Word.
Step 7: Select Review tab and then click Protect -> Restrict Editing.
Step 8: Then click on Stop Protection and without any password required you can remove restrict editing and successfully unprotect the document.
Step 9: Save this *.rtf document as .docx document, and you're done.
