Forgotton Word97 Password HELP

I have a password protected Word 97 document that needs to be unprotected. The last guy that was here decided it would be a nice thing to do before leaving. Is there any code, or freeware program out there that I can get to break this password protection?

I haven't tried this yet, but it might work. Try opening the document in a different Word Processor like Word Perfect.

[MrShickadance]

you can always rename the file to a .txt format and grab the text that way, takes time but it works. I don't think word protected docs are encrypted, but I could be wrong about that.

[Mih_Flyer]

you are wrong about that, the protected word document is encrypted, i had the same problem before and i couldn't find any way out of that, but there is some way out of that, should be,

[MrShickadance]

Hmm.. I just tried to protect a Word doc. I had no problem opening it in the text editor and viewing the text. non of the text was scrammbled.

I tried opening it in notepad, and wordpad, no success. I don't have another word processor, any other ideas?

[MrShickadance]

What do you mean it didn't work?

What happened? What are the steps that you took?

IT's not going to be in a foramtted format like in Word. It's going to have a lot of extra crap that Word uses. what you have to do is look for the text in the file and copy/paste into a new document.

[Quarquinx]

The only way I know to do it is to download Advanced Word Password Recovery. You can download it at http://www.elcomsoft.com