Hmmm, the password used to be stored in plain text near the end of the document - you could grab it with a hex editor or probably even using strings.
I do hope that later versions of Word are more advanced than this... I mean, it's supposed to be DOD ready! Jon Carnes On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 21:17, Chris Knowles wrote: > OK, I tried it with word, and it no worky. OO pops up and says that it > can't open protected documents. Now, it will work if all they've done > is protect against changes, but not if they've protected the entire > document. > > CJK > > On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 17:05, Jason Tower wrote: > > i can't speak for word, but a client recently sent me a XLS file that had > > passwd-protected cells/columns (they had forgotten the passwd and wanted > > to know if i could "fix" it). OO calc had no trouble with it, saved it as > > a new file and all was right with the world. i did have to do a > > "unprotect sheet" or something like that first, only took a second. > > > > jason > > > > > On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 16:39, Dan wrote: > > >> --On Friday, March 26, 2004 04:07:41 PM -0500 Jason Tower > > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > >> > yeah, it's called openoffice :) > > >> > > >> 'splain please... will OpenOffice read in the password protected files? > > >> I've not played with OO because, like Office, it seems to be way bloated > > >> to > > >> me. > > > > > > OpenOffice will not read password protected word documents at all. > > > Do give it a try for your general office needs, though, it feels a lot > > > less bloated in recent versions, like the one included in Fedora Core 1 > > > or Mandrake 10. > > > > > > AbiWord will open some types of password-protected Word docs... but it > > > will prompt for the password. It needs this to decrypt. > > > > > > I believe John Beimler has experience with this; if he doesn't see this > > > thread, you may want to ask him on IRC (nick jbeimler). > > > > > > --Jeremy > > > > > > -- > > > /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ > > > | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | > > > | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | > > > \---------------------------------------------------------------------/ > > > -- > > > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
