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squillman
Asked: 2009-05-07 05:58:17 +0800 CST

Open Source MS Word Password Recovery?

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Does anyone know of a free open source recovery tool? Should include recovery of document protection password ideally.

EDIT: I'll settle for just Free instead of free and open source :) I'm looking for something that will handle not only passwords used to open the file but also passwords used to do Word's different forms of document protection.

microsoft-office open-source password-recovery

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  1. Best Answer

    Document form protection is a lot easier to break than document opening protection. Simply open Microsoft Script Editor and replace the contents of the UnprotectPassword value with nothing.

    I'm on a Linux box at the moment, so I can't write you a step-by-step, but this page looks pretty clear. If you have any problems, leave me a comment and I'll help you out next time I'm using a Windows machine.

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  2. This one is free, although not open source.

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