RE: Simple crack of Word protected files: RTF

[Alan Bucher <bucherino -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

I don't get it. If the document is password-protected, how do you
open it to re-save it? And if you can open it, then where is the
password protection?


Steve Schwarzman wrote:
>We got some Word files from a customer that were
>password-protected
>...
>The archives have recommendations on how to unprotect a protected
>Word doc when you don't have the password. These included using
>shareware or PDF, but I experimented and found that RTF also
>works. Saving as RTF, closing, then opening allowed me to
>unprotect the document without the password.

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