Password Recovery for Microsoft Word Documents
- 1). Locate the Microsoft Word document within your documents.
- 2). Right-click the document file with the mouse. Move the cursor down to the "Open with" option on the drop-down menu.
- 3). Select "Other programs" and choose to open the document with Notepad.
- 4). Search through the first few lines of the document text in Notepad to locate a word that looks like a word you would use as a password for your document.
- 5). Open your document in Microsoft Word. Type the word into the password field and click "OK" to open your Word document.
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