>>>>>Sorry to Post this message here, Actually I posted it in Microsoft Office forum also, but didn't got any reply.
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>>>>>I'm having a problem with one word file created in office 95, by one of my old colleagues(who left the job), which is password protected.
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>>>>>I can just view and print the file but can not make any changes.
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>>>>>Can anybody help me to unprotect this file or tell me any way or utility to do the same.
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>>>>>Thanking you all in advance.
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>>>>Vinod,
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>>>>If you can view the file, can you SAVE AS to a different name and then copy the resulting file over the original?
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>>>Thanks for Your reply !! But the problem is even if I save it with other name in some other dir., protection is still there in that file & I can't make any changes in it.
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>>>Pls advise your comments...
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>>In the "Save As" dialog there should be an Options button. In that it should display stars for the read only password - simply blank it here.
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>>HTH
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>In the save as box->options only save tab is enabled and both the boxes for password are blank, but still I can't make any changes nor I can copy and paste it, everything is disabled.
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>Pls advs.

Open the document in question, do a ctrl+a, open a new document and paste (or ctrl+v.) Unless you have macros that need to run, that should do it.

John Harvey