removing password/r-o from a doc?

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Jerome

Hi,

I've got the following situation:

There's a document protected by a password so it's only viewable in
read-only mode when you don't know the password. Problem is the user who
activated this password, doesn't remember it anymore! And now we need to
save the document without password so other people can edit an save it.
How can we do that??

Any help is greatly appreciated,

Jerome
 
Which version of Word?

A document protected to be read-only can be saved to a different name as a
non-read-only file. (This may not be true in Word 2003; I haven't
experimented with the protection levels there.) You can also copy text and
paste it into a different document.

Do you perhaps mean that it is protected for forms? (If it is, many of the
commands on your Tools menu will be disabled. You won't be able to select
text in all or part of the document to copy it.) If so, create a new
document, based on the same template if possible. Within that new
(unprotected) document...

Insert => File

You may have some clean-up work to do.
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Charles Kenyon

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It's a Word 97-file and I try to 'save it as ...' under Word 2000 and
Word 2003 but he remembers the read-only thing!

Inserting worked although the layout is messed up (tables etc)

Have to try further.

Thanks anyway!

J.
 
It is _not_ a read-only file (although that may seem like an appropriate
term, it means something else). It is a file protected for forms.

If you can reproduce the margins and use the Organizer to copy styles (3
times) from your original document you should be close.
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Charles Kenyon

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