Last night, my best friend Ann told me she was so helpless because she just got a read-only password-protected word file from her boss. She has no idea to sidestep the password because her boss gets really mad every time she asks him to unlock the word file or send her an unprotected version?

Ahem! I think this is so common for office staffs. Or if you forgot your password to open a Microsoft Word Document, what can you do to bypass this situation?

Okay, here I’ll offer you some suggestions to crack the locked Microsoft Word files. Everyone who thinks this is illegal, and then you can go shopping instead.

1.  Try your best to guess the password

You could spend months or years to guess what your word document password is and the result maybe never ever get it. Unlike the movies, it doesn’t tell you when you get a character correct. So you could spend the rest of your life guessing. Or……

2.  Crack only for read-only word document

First, open the document and do a “Save As…” specifying Rich Text Format (RTF). It’ll end up being called something.rtf.

Now open the RTF file by double-clicking on it. It should look identical to the original Word file.

Final step: save the RTF file with a new name as a Microsoft Word format document.

That’s all there is to it. You’ve sidestepped the read-only lock on the file your boss sent you and are good to go.

In terms of actually breaking the password on a file that has it set as the “open file” password, that’s beyond the scope of what I’ll write about here. But I will say that there are some Google searches that can probably help you track down plenty of tips on doing just that.

3.  Crack the “Password to Open” and “Password to Edit”

Word Password Recovery 5.0 is a simple tool for the easiest solution to Word Password Recovery. It recovers/removes the “Password to Open” and “Password to Edit” for you to view and edit the document freely.

Official Website: http://recoverlostpassword.com/products/wordpasswordrecovery.html    

Navigate to the “Word Password Recovery 5.0″ website. This password recovery tool functions powerfully with the dynamic attack modes, brute-force attack, brute-force with mask attack and dictionary attack. A dictionary attack is where the software compares the password with entries in a dictionary. The software’s password recovery wizard is user-friendly and helps you to figure out the best method for you to crack locked MS word files..

Microsoft Office developers have been paying more and more attention to the means of protecting users’ information, and Microsoft Word document has not been overlooked. With advanced features of “Encrypt with Password”, MS Word Document 2007 allows users to make their files password protected, which helps shield the data from prying eyes. However, if you [...]