Recover Word Password

[Alex Samol]

Dear Group,
We have a common problem...employee quit and has many work and excel
documents password protected. This client is using Office 2000 Prem and the
OS is Windows XP pro. Can anyone help with removing the password(s) off
these office files?
Thanks,
Alex

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

If you Google for password crack you will find some sources. However would
you give your credit card details to someone who cracks passwords for a
living?

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Graham Mayor]

If the documents are password protected against opening, the simple solution
would be to ask the ex-employee for the password. If they are protected for
forms see http://www.gmayor.com/Remove_Password.htm

Word's encryption is highly effective and you will not easily get past it.

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My web site www.gmayor.com

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[Alex Samol]

I know I did that, and you get a lot of options...but can you trust theses
sites?
I thought an Office 2000 word document requiring a password to open was an
easy one to crack...guess not.
Thanks for the feed back,
Alex

 

[Alex Samol]

So far the disgruntled employee is refusing to provide the passwords. The
script editor requires that you open the document.not good because we need a
password to open these documents. If I copy the document to another media
type will the password follow?



Alex

 

[Graham Mayor]

You may have to recourse to legal action to recover the password from the
ex-employee, or the cost of employing someone to recreate the documents.
Sometimes a big stick is the only solution.

If the document is password protected against opening, then it is encrypted
and you will not open it without the password. The various password cracking
solutions rely on brute force cracking i.e. they try every possible
combination. If your ex-employee has used a complex password this can take
many hours - or days - to crack, and if he has used different passwords for
different documents then this will have to be done for each document.


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