Today i had to deal with a document, written in Word 2007, which was protected by a password.I could open the document but most menu functions where grayed out and i could not select any text.
Because i wanted to edit this document i played around and finally found a way to remove the password.
The following steps removed the protection from the document:
- Open protected document in Word 2007.
- Click the colored Word button in the upper left corner and Save document as Word 97-2003 document.
- Close Word and re-open the just created document.doc (note file extension is doc now!)
- Choose menu Review->Protect Document and press button Stop Protection .
No password is asked and the document becomes unprotected now!
