Unlock any Read-only Word Document !

All,

Many a times we need to make some changes to documents or even need to fill-up some online documents which are in MS Word, and they have a read-only protection in place,

So here is how to bypass, or Unlock them.

If you are using office XP or 2003, you can change the view to HTML-Code using Microsoft Script-Editor by pressing the [Alt]+[Shift]+[F11] key combination.

Search for “Password”, or scroll down till you will find something like this:

DocumentProtection>Forms
UnprotectPassword>60B9DAE3

To remove the protection:
Just remove those two lines, and after saving the document , the protection is gone.

To remove the password:
-replace the Password, here “60B9DAE3″, with “00000000″, save the Document and close “Script-Editor”.

Hope this helps.

Thanks

Nitin Kushwaha