Microsoft Word 2007 can be very useful for both personal and professional applications. It allows you to quickly and easily create letters, flyers, labels, greeting cards and documents of various types. It also allows you to protect a document from access and modification with a password. However, you may need to remove them, and if you don't know how, it can be difficult. Read this article to learn how to delete passwords from Word documents, without destroying their content.
Steps
Step 1. Open Microsoft Word 2007
Step 2. Try opening the password protected document
Step 3. If prompted, enter the password to open the document
If you have forgotten your password, you may need to re-create the file
Step 4. Click the Microsoft Office button in the upper left corner, and hover the mouse pointer over the Prepare option
Step 5. Select Document Encryption from the menu that appears
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An encrypted document cannot be opened without the password.
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The Encrypt Document dialog box will appear, with asterisks in the password field.
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Step 6. Clear the contents of the password field and click OK
The encryption will then be removed
Step 7. Save the document
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If you want to keep the original version of the password protected document, then select Save As and give the document a new title.
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Step 8. Remove the password required to edit the document
- The password to protect the document from changes only prevents you from saving a document with the same name and overwriting its original text.
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At the bottom of the Save As dialog box, click Tools.
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Choose General Options from the Tools menu.
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Clear the contents of the password field and click the OK button to close the dialog box.
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