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In Microsoft Word, you can set passwords to restrict opening a file or modification of the document. Without any one of passwords, document will be locked and it refuses to editing. It is easy to unlock a document that has editing restrictions. However, if you don't know the password to open Word document, you will be unable to open and edit it.
This tutorial provides information on how to unlock a protected Word document without password.
How to unlock an encrypted Word document without password to Open
Can't access the workbook because the password is wrong to open the Excel file? Fortunately, there are two unlocking ways here: One is to recover the original password to Open Excel file, and the other is to directly remove password.
Way 1: Recover password to open a Word document
To recover a Word document password without losing data, you can use a Word Password Recovery tool, which supports to find password for all versions of Microsoft Word and all formats (.doc/.docx).
Download and install this tool into your computer. Then, run it.
Step 1: Click Open button and browse for your locked Word document and add it into this program.
Step 2: Select an appropriate password attack type and configure attack parameters.
Step 3: Click the Start button to start password recovery process.
Step 4: When password is recovered successfully and it displays there. Click Copy button.
Step 5: Then, click Open button to unlock your document with the recovered password.
Which attack type should you select?
There are four types of password attack to unlock the document: Brute Force attack, Dictionary attack, and Smart attack, and Mask attack. All these types differently provide options that can help you with the password recovery in different ways.
1. Brute-force Attack: This attack will try all possible characters combinations in the specified range have selected. If the password is short, it will be recovered in a while.
2. Mask Attack: If still remember some part of the password, you can specify it with the mask symbol to shorten the password recovery time. Then it will be faster than the Brute-force attack.
3. Dictionary Attack: It will try all the passwords strings in its built-in or yourself-created dictionary. If the protected password is in the self-created password dictionary, it can recover the password easier than any other attacks.
4. Smart Attack: It will try all possible characters combinations in all printable characters. If you don't remember any thing about the password, choose this one is ok. There is no need to configure the parameters, it could be performed to find out your password but that is the most time consuming approach.
How to configure the attack parameters?
To speed up the password recovery process, you may need to make some additional settings for each attack types.
1. Brute-force attack type
Once you have selected the option, you need to set the proper Range options by unchecking the box of All caps Latin(A-Z), All small Latin(a-z), All special symbols, Space, or All printable as needed. Here we only leave All digits option checking, because we know the password is all in digital password.
When you probable know how many characters of password, please set password Length, which can reduce amount of password combinations. So password recovery time will be shortened comparing to when you don't do anything. If your password consists of 6 characters, set it as screenshot shows:
2. Mask attack type
Click on Range, and then set the Start from, End at, Mask option. For example, if your password is '126', and you still remember the begin with digital number 1, then you can set the Start from box to '1'. Specify the unknown characters with '?' symbol, so set the Mask box to '1??'.
3. Dictionary attack type
If use the built-in dictionary, you don't need to do any thing, just click on Start button to begin the recovery process. If you have created a password dictionary, select the Dictionary tab and click Select Dictionary button, then navigate to the path to your created dictionary text file and load it into the program.
For more detail about the setting of Mask attack and Dictionary, see Mask Attack and Dictionary Password Attack Recovery.
4. Smart attack type
If you know nothing about the password, then you have to select Smart type. It will discover all character combinations until recovering your password. There is no need to configure the parameters, while it may take several hours or more time depends on the password length and the performance of your computer.
Way 2: Remove Open password from a Word (.doc) document.
If you have a password-protected .doc file, you can remove the password protection with iSumsoft Word Password Remover, which is specialized for removing password for a file in Microsoft Word 97-2003 Document (*.doc) format.
Step 1: Download, install, and then run Word Password Remover on your computer.
Step 2: Click Open button and add your locked Word document into this program.
Step 3: Click Remove Password button.
Step 4: When password was removed, you can unlock your workbook without on difficulty.
Part 2: How to unlock a restricted Word document without password
If your Word document is locked without knowing the proctected password to Modify, typically, you will be able to view the document but you won’t be able to edit it. Thankfully, the password is not very secure, use this solution below, you can easily remove all protections from a document.
How to Remove protection passwords with one-click
iSumsoft Word Protection Refixer is an easy-to-use utility that allows you to remove editing restrictions from MS Word 2003-2019 documents with a simple click, so that you can easily unprotect the Word document.
1. Download the Word Protection Refixer tool and install it on your computer.
2. Run the Word Protection Refixer program. Click the 'Add' button to add the restricted Word file, then click 'Remove Password' button. You can see all the restrictions in the file will be deleted after a few seconds.
How to Remove protection passwords manually
1. When you open a protected document, you will be asked to enter password to Modify. Dut to you have no the password, you need to click Read Only to open the Word document in read-only mode.
2. When your Word document is opened as read-only, press F12 to bring out Save As dialog box. Select a folder to save the Word document and then select Word 97-2003 Document to save the Word document.
Now, you've effectively removed read only, and the file should become an editable version document. If it still has editing restriction, please use the way 1 as above shown or you can refer to how to unlock a file that has been locked for editing without password.
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As the release of Microsoft Office 2016, many users now are using this latest version of Office app. After creating a Word/Excel/PowerPoint document in Office 2016, you would set password to protect the document from being opened and modified. Now, if you forget/lose the password and get locked out of the Office 2016 file, how can you unlock and open the file without knowing the password? It is the problem that we will solve on this page.
It is inherently difficult to find a lost password from an Office file. On top of that, Office 2016 is the newest Office version; old methods don’t work for it at all. Hence, the best way will be to unlock Office 2016 file password with a specialized tool, like Office Password Refixer.
How to unlock Office 2016 file password with tool
With the help of a specialized Office Password Recovery tool, things will become much easier.
Step 1: Install Office Password Refixer tool
Get Office Password Refixer and install it on your computer. After installation is complete, launch it.
Tips: This tool is specially designed for Windows-based computer. If you are using Office 2016 for Mac, sorry, this tool can’t work for you and you have to find another solution to unlock your file.
Step 2: Import locked Office 2016 file
1. Click the Open button near the upper-left corner of this tool.
2. In the Open File dialog, navigate to the path to the locked file.
Tips: For Word/Excel/PowerPoint document, directly navigate to its location. For Access, you need to navigate to the *.mdb or *.accdb file location. For Outlook, you need to navigate to the *.pst file location. Refer to: How to look up where Outlook .pst file is located.
3. Then select the target file and click Open to import its path into this tool.
Step 3: Configure attack types
Click the drop-down under Type of Attack and select one attack type. Configure its relevant parameter settings if necessary. For example, here I select Brute-force as the attack type, select All digits as the Range, and set the Length from 1 to 6.
Tips: Dictionary and Mask attack are two more effective types. The goal to configure parameter settings is making the tool perform a higher performance password recovery. The more accurately you set the parameter, the more quickly it can find the password. If you don’t configure any attack type or parameter settings but leave it its default state, this tool still can find the password for you; but it may take a bit more time and you need more patience.
Step 4: Unlock Office 2016 file
1. After finishing the three steps above, click the Start button. The tool will immediately start its high-speed engine to discover the forgotten password from the locked Office file.
2. Wait patiently till the password is found and displayed in the box.
3. Copy and paste the password to unlock and open the locked Office 2016 document/file.
Is Office Password Refixer the only option? No, there are some similar tools provided on the web. But please be serious in choosing one tool, because many tools don’t support the new Office 2016.
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