How to Set, Reset, Remove and Recover the Password of MS Word Files

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Do you know how to set a password to Microsoft (MS) Word files? As is known to all, password-protecting your MS Word documents is quite important to guarantee that unofficial users cannot access your confidential contents. Yet, given that so many applications and programs require passwords nowadays, what if you forgot or misplace those passwords?

The answer is in creating an easy-to-use and safe way to recover MS Word passwords as seen in Method 4

Method 1
Method 1 of 5:

Set a password to protect a Word 2007 file

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    Click the Microsoft Office Button.on the top left side, and then click to ->Prepare->Encrypt Document.
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Method 2
Method 2 of 5:

Reset the password of an encrypted MS Word 2007 document

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    Click the Microsoft Office button.Click Save As, and on the bottom of the Save As dialog box, click Tools.
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    The General Options dialog opens.
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    Click OK.
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Method 3
Method 3 of 5:

Remove known password in Word 2007 documents

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    (Note: If you forgot or lost your Word password, you have to recover Word password using the MS Word password recovery tool.)
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    , point to Prepare, and then click Encrypt Document.
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Method 4
Method 4 of 5:

Remove forgotten password in Word 2007 documents online

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    It's impossible to recover password using standard Word functionality.
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    You'll need a license key to get the fully unlocked one.
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Method 5
Method 5 of 5:

Recover a Word password with Dossoft Word password rescuer

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