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How to Crack a Password Protected Word Document?

May 24, 2008 by Amit Bhawani 16 Comments

I am a home based job professional. Yesterday I received some assignments from one of my clients, all of those files were password protected read only word files. The client is now out of station and I can’t ask him to unlock the files for me or tell him to send me the unprotected versions. I don’t know how to crack the password, and also don’t have any idea regarding the legal facts related to the cracking procedure.

Should I Crack the Word Files?
The process of cracking the software is not illegal, as you can need to apply the process in many circumstances other than doing it with a bad intention. Sometimes such files need to be cracked for solving the legislative purposes which is often related to the security of the country, so how can this be an illegal process. So, you can also crack the password protected word files sent by your client.

Don’t think that the people like us, who crack the passwords of important documents as crackers; we are also not here to offer you software for cracking files. The password software recovering passwords are sometimes wrongly said to be the password crackers (this can be employed to ‘break’ or ‘crack’ the passwords illegally).

The software crackers have nothing in common with the system of recovering passwords or password crackers. The Software crackers are used only by the people with criminal intentions and not by the people who are trying to recover the password of files. The Password Crackers helps you to recover the passwords which you have forgotten or need to obtain for performing important jobs. This is absolutely legal.

Suppose you have word document file named as John. You will have to open that document and click the Save As option for saving it as an RTF file. The full form of RTF is Rich Text Format. The file will then be named as John.rtf. Open the word file you have just saved.

Now in the final step you will have to save that RTF file as a MS Word format file and have to rename it. Then break the password using the directions of the password recovery software.

If you would have waited for the return of your client, thinking that the cracking of password is an illegal job, then your time would have been wasted. Your client would also not be happy with you. This is the utility of the procedure of cracking password.

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Comments

  1. mewael says

    July 8, 2008 at 1:15 am

    my password some times i forget i want now how can crack the passward.

    Reply
    • kumara swamy s says

      May 12, 2011 at 9:43 pm

      I assigned passward to word document creted long back. Now I forget passward. How to recover passward for that document or how to break open the passward please suggest.

      Reply
  2. zlatan24 says

    July 29, 2008 at 8:19 pm

    I heard about not bad application-how to recover word file, the text information only from damaged files, recover information from corrupted Microsoft Word documents and templates located on corrupted media (floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, Zip drives, etc.), recover information from corrupted Microsoft Word documents and templates via the local area network, export the recovered information both to Microsoft Word and to a plain text fil, erecover file software is compatible with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows XP SP2, Windows 2003, Windows Vista.

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  3. Quinn says

    August 12, 2008 at 12:48 pm

    Are their levels of pwd protection in Word? I have tried the format change option THREE TIMES but the doc still tells me its pwd protected. I’m in the same situation. A word file at work and not one person here knows the password or can think of anyone who might… Yet the minimal editing I can do on this doc is not ‘enough’. I’m pulling my hair out. I’m a technical writer and the fact that Word keeps outwitting me is starting to get on my nerves. It is a doc of over 100 pages and I’m beginning to think I’ll have to build it as a pdf and completely rewrite it. Uncool in the extreme…

    I don’t want to purchase or download anything..

    Reply
  4. Sandie says

    August 14, 2008 at 8:13 pm

    Not sure if it’s an option for you, but I’ve had somewhat similar situations in that I’ve been given hard copies of documents, no electronic available. If you have a scanner, most come with OCR text recognition that would allow you to scan the doc and convert it to a new Word document.

    Also, you could try converting it to PDF, and then if you have a full “Pro” version of Adobe, it can save the document back to Word (I don’t know if it will retain that password information or not, but it may get you the text.)

    In either of these situations, you will probably have to spend a good deal of time editing and/or re-formatting, but it might be better than re-typing everything (sometimes it’s easier to re-type or have someone else re-type). Good luck!

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  5. sajju says

    August 15, 2008 at 10:47 am

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  6. Sherry says

    August 23, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    I am sure they are people that love you and hate you too. LOL its not a nice job but since they are asking you to do surely its not your fault. Crack the document is it same as hack a site? I have no idea..

    Reply
  7. Balaji J H says

    October 21, 2008 at 5:03 pm

    Time makes man to do things…
    Something is illegal on knowing it, if we want it then doing it is a common human being practice…

    Reply
  8. PRAMOD KUMAR says

    January 26, 2011 at 6:16 pm

    I want to know that how it is possible when my personal laptop handing by other peroson and i know through my cell phone or, any other device that your laptop is handing by other person.
    If possible Please guide me.

    Reply
  9. NetworkSolutions Review says

    January 31, 2011 at 11:06 am

    Nice guide. Cracking the password doesn’t seem to be illegal always.

    Reply
  10. Web Host says

    February 5, 2011 at 7:14 pm

    Is cracking so difficult in the process that you have mentioned. I thought its some software use and done.

    Reply
  11. shera says

    February 24, 2011 at 10:25 pm

    how to save the file in RTF format huh???? to save the file in RTF format, we need to open the file…to open that file we need PASSWORD…that’s the thing,wat we r looking 4……psycho

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    • lohith says

      April 22, 2011 at 7:50 pm

      ya… its foolish!! i dnt get it :((

      Reply
  12. barbara says

    May 23, 2011 at 9:14 am

    SmartKey Word Password Recovery software is a new revolutionary solution for cracking word password while lost or forgot MS Word document password, it can help you easily recover or restore password protected dock file/forgotten word document password to open and modify. It supports all MS word document encryption algorithms.

    Reply
  13. peter says

    August 20, 2011 at 12:24 pm

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    Reply

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