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<p>It's possible to remove a read-only flag but if you want to decrypt a modern .docx you're limited to brute force or remembering the password or finding an unencrypted version on the author's machine.</p><p>If they've really no idea about the password it's statistically better to give up now.</p>
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Think about what you are asking.<br />
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If password protections are easily bypassed, what is the point of having password protections in the first place?<br />
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Sure, as mentioned, there are tools out there that can crack easy ones but the one in the link above claims up to 70% success.<br />
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Most are probably good if the passwords are &quot;Bunny12345&quot; but not so good if the password is &quot;!@#F#^%h$g35f2@%Fhg&amp;=54fh<wbr />-m&quot;
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<p>I have a user who has protected their word document (.docx) with a password but has forgotten the password</p><p>Hence can't access the file</p><p>I have tried the methods which worked with previous documents - converting to .rtf etc.... but no luck</p><p>Obviously security has been greatly increased</p><p>Any ideas anyone??</p>
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I have a user who has protected their word document (.docx) with a password but has forgotten the password
Hence can't access the file
I have tried the methods which worked with previous documents - converting to .rtf etc.... but no luck
Obviously security has been greatly increased
Any ideas anyone??


It&amp;#39;s possible to remove a read-only flag but if you want to decrypt a modern .docx you&amp;#39;re limited to brute force or remembering the password or finding an unencrypted version on the author&amp;#39;s machine.
If they&amp;#39;ve really no idea about the password it&amp;#39;s statistically better to give up now.

Think about what you are asking.

If password protections are easily bypassed, what is the point of having password protections in the first place?

Sure, as mentioned, there are tools out there that can crack easy ones but the one in the link above claims up to 70% success.

Most are probably good if the passwords are &amp;quot;Bunny12345&amp;quot; but not so good if the password is &amp;quot;!@#F#^%h$g35f2@%Fhg&amp;amp;=54fh-m&amp;quot;

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I have a user who has protected their word document (.docx) with a password but has forgotten the password
Hence can&amp;#39;t access the file
I have tried the methods which worked with previous documents - converting to .rtf etc.... but no luck
Obviously security has been greatly increased
Any ideas anyone??

Microsoft Word is a commercial document editing program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It features numerous text-editing tools for creating richly formatted documents, along with tools for the use of macros in Word documents. Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx file extension. Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as the OpenDocument format (ODF) are available. Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art.

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