Often documents created in Microsoft Word are protected from alteration with a password. Then you will not be able to edit the document without knowing the code combination. What to do in such situations?
It is necessary
a computer with the installed program
Instructions
Step 1
Start Microsoft Word, execute the "File" - "Open" command, or click the "Open" button on the standard toolbar. Select the document you want to unlock. To remove the protection of a Word document, run the command "File" - "Save As". Select the save location, set the file type to "Web Page" and click "OK". After that, you can remove protection from the Word document.
Step 2
Open the folder where you saved the document as a web page. This file will have an HTML extension. Right-click on this document, select "Open With" to unprotect the document, select Notepad. Use the "Search by" command to find the following tag in the document code:, in this tag, in turn, find the line, it will look something like this: w: nprotectPassword> ABCDEF01. Between the tags there will be a password for changing the document. To remove the password from the document, copy it to the clipboard, then open the document in Word and unlock it using the password found.
Step 3
You can also open the document in a hexadecimal editor, find the password value, overwrite it with four 0x00s. Next, open the document in Word, and use a blank password to remove the protection of the document.
Step 4
Save the document in.docx format. Change the file extension to.zip (open the context menu on the file, click Rename, delete.docx, enter.zip instead). Open the resulting archive, select the settings.xml file, click the "Extract" button. Open this file with a text editor, find the next tag, delete it. Next, add the settings.xml file to the archive, confirm the file replacement. Rename the archive to a.docx file. Open the document in Word - unprotected.
