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I know two companies doing crackers for these type of files:<br />
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<a href="http://www.accessdata.com/" rel="ugc">http://www.accessdata.com/</a><br />
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and<br />
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<a href="http://www.crak.com/" rel="ugc">http://www.crak.com/</a><br />
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Both companies say that they are able to crack password up to version 7 (and Word 97 is version 8 I believe)<br />

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I know two companies doing crackers for these type of files:

http://www.accessdata.com/ [http://www.accessdata.com/]

and

http://www.crak.com/ [http://www.crak.com/]

Both companies say that they are able to crack password up to version 7 (and Word 97 is version 8 I believe)


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Try opening the document in an normal text viewer.<br />

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Try opening the document in an normal text viewer.


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I created a short list of passwords and saved in a Word 97 doc file and password protected the file. I've forgotten the password. How can I retrieve this file?
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I created a short list of passwords and saved in a Word 97 doc file and password protected the file. I've forgotten the password. How can I retrieve this file?

Forgotten password in MS Word 97

Microsoft Office is an integrated suite of applications that includes Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio and InfoPath, along with a number of tools to assist in making the individual components work together. Coding within and between the projects is done in Visual Basic for Applications, known as VBA.