Unlock any Read-only Word Document !

Hi Folks,

Many a times we need to make some changes to documents or even need to fill-up some online documents which are in MS Word, and they have a read-only protection in place,

So here is how to bypass, or Unlock them.

If you are using office XP or 2003, you can change the view to HTML-Code using Microsoft Script-Editor by pressing the [Alt]+[Shift]+[F11] key combination.

Search for "Password", or scroll down till you will find something like this:


DocumentProtection>Forms
UnprotectPassword>60B9DAE3


To remove the protection:
Just remove those two lines, and after saving the document , the protection is gone.

To remove the password:
-replace the Password, here "60B9DAE3", with "00000000", save the Document and close "Script-Editor".


Enjoy!

Nitin Kushwaha
CHFI.CEH.NSA.SCSCA.CIW-SA.ITIL.MCSE.MCSA