Geek Help Request

[Halo Jones]

OK something IT related this time: so what’s the easiest way to unlock a password protected document in Word 2010? (& no I don’t have the password)

Thanks for any sensible answers

[DimPrawn]

The easiest way is to ask the person who protected the document what the password is.

HTH BIDI

The other solutions involve MI5 and their code cracking team.

[MarillionFan]

Remove the Password

I've got a tool that does but I'll be buggered if I can remember the name.

[Paddy]

Make a copy

open file as .rtf

or rename as filename.rtf and open with Wordpad

[Troll]

Ask ATW to use his SKA infrastructure to run some rainbow tables against it

swine wouldn't do it for me when I asked him, but as you're a girlie you may have some feminine ways to persuade the ruskie

[TimberWolf]

Is Word 2010 uncrackable (unlike earlier versions). If not, download one of those dodgy password cracking programs on to a safe machine and copy the word document to it and let that machine get infected with a trojan and have the document be corrupted and maybe get the password too.