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The Help Desk => Computer Related Discussions & Questions => Topic started by: ChuckJ on January 08, 2013, 05:30:46 PM
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I have a form from 2012 that is a protected MS Word doc.
It is one of those fill in the blank type forms which I like because it makes my life easier. The problem is that I need to add an image in a block that is not an editable field. I don't know the password to unprotect the document so I can add the image. I don't even know where to begin to look for who would know the password. Is there a way around the password other than saving the doc as a rtf file? Saving as a rtf does remove the protection, but it also screws the margins.
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What version of Word?
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What version of Word?
I'm using 2007. I don't know what was used to create the document.
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You might try this to start.
http://download.cnet.com/Free-Word-Excel-password-recovery-Wizard/3000-2092_4-10249515.html
The thing is that it's going matter how strong the password is, whatever the solution , it's going to have to brute force the password.
That can take some time.
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Thanks. I'll give it a try. It's not a real big deal if I can't get it unprotected. I can just manually add the image with a graphics program, but this is a form I have to use 30 or so times a year so it'd be less of a hassle to just add the image once.
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After looking at this for a bit, there were some recommendations for this.
http://www.rixler.com/office_password_recovery_toolbox.htm?gclid=CNe_k6P62bQCFcxAMgodaSAAcg
Just skimming the site it seems free but for whatever reason they also have specialized tools for word, access, excel...whatever.
I don't know if it's free or not but it did come with some good rec's.