subject: How to recover/reset a password protected MS Word document without waiting and cheap (or free)? [print this page] How to recover/reset a password protected MS Word document without waiting and cheap (or free)?
Forgetting document password is a common problem. There are many ways to recover/reset the password. But many of them are very very slow (several hours - several days), and too expensive (normally above $29). So, how to do the same thing, faster and cost less?
There are three types of password can be used to protect a word document:"Password to modify", "Document Protected Password" and "Open password".
"Password to modify" allows every user to view and to edit a document (with a special read-only setting) but not to save these changes.
It's the weakest protection. You only need to copy all content of the document and save them to another document, then you can get an unprotected document.
"Document Protected Password" prevents your document from any alterations. Any user can freely view it but no one is allowed to edit, copy, or format it. To a certain point it is similar to a pdf file viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
It's stronger then the "Password to modify" protection. Although it will take several steps, it can be removed without any software.
"Open Password" provide the strongest protection for word passwords. You cannot access the document without the open password and without any help of software.
There are many software can be used to recover/remove the password of word document, such as "Word Password Recovery Wizard" (http://www.sharewareplaza.com/word-password-recovery-wizard-download_12536.html)and "Word Password Recovery Master" (http://www.sharewareplaza.com/word-password-recovery-master-download_52974.htm).
The biggest problem of these software is too slow or too expensive.
"Word Password Recovery Wizard " uses the typical brute-force to crack password. It works fine for very simple password, such as very short password (less than 4 characters). But for very complex passwords, it will take very long time sometimes up to dozen days.
"Word Password Recovery Master" is the new age document password cracker, it can remove passwords to documents in several seconds, but it's too expensive - $29 to register plus $4.95 - $9.95 per document.
Now you can try another new age word document password cracker: "BitChip MS Word Password Remover". You can use it toremove the "Modify Password" and "Document Protection Password" instantwithout any limit for free. It will cost $3.95-$9.95 to crack "Open" password per document, without the registration fee. As a new age password cracker, it can crack the "Open" password in seconds, regardless the complexity of the password.
You can find "BitChip MS Word Password Remover" on http://www.bitchip.com/ms-word-password-remover
