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How to remove password from word document office 365.
I’m regularly annoyed at password-protected Microsoft Word files that only permit editing of certain aspects of the document such as form fields. By itself, Word’s “Restricted Editing” isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
It’s the fact that file creators are usually very conservative and prefer to disallow editing something “just in case”, rather than giving users the option to add text somewhere unexpected.
The result is often that in order to complete a form, one must print it out and amend it with a pen, or convert to PDF and use the “comment” function.
Looking for a way around, I recently found out how to remove the Document Protection from Word files without knowing the actual password*:
* Note that this method only works with Word Docs that are protected from editing, not files that require a password to open.
- Open the Word file in question (doc, docx)
- Choose “File”, “Save File As”, and make sure the file format is set to “Rich-Text-Format (*.rtf)”. Close the file in Word (imp
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