Remove / Delete Stored Password from MS Word

Remove Stored Password from MS Word

Microsoft Word password protection feature is best method to protect your important documents to hide the contents from the external users.

Most of the time users they forget the stored password which they set to that document. He or She won't able to access that particular document without knowing of the stored old password. You can only modify the entire document data's with the use of protected password.

Here i am going to share small tricks to remove or delete stored password from Microsoft word. This trick successfully worked in  MS Word 2003 & 2007. I havn't checked in 2010 version. 

Step 1. Open your word document in Microsoft Script-Editor by pressing the [Alt]+[Shift]+[F11] key combination.

Step 2. Search for "Password" and you will find the word like this:

<w:DocumentProtection>ReadOnly</w:DocumentProtection>

<w:UnprotectPassword>19E8E61E</w:UnprotectPassword>

Step 3. To remove the protection:

Just delete given above two lines from the script editor, the document's protection will is deleted.

Step 4. To remove the password:

Replace the Password, here "19E8E61E", with "00000000", save the Document and close "Script-Editor". Stored password will be removed.