You may have to recourse to legal action to recover the password from the
ex-employee, or the cost of employing someone to recreate the documents.
Sometimes a big stick is the only solution.
If the document is password protected against opening, then it is encrypted
and you will not open it without the password. The various password cracking
solutions rely on brute force cracking i.e. they try every possible
combination. If your ex-employee has used a complex password this can take
many hours - or days - to crack, and if he has used different passwords for
different documents then this will have to be done for each document.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site
www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site
http://word.mvps.org
Alex Samol wrote:
So far the disgruntled employee is refusing to provide the passwords.
The script editor requires that you open the document.not good
because we need a password to open these documents. If I copy the
document to another media type will the password follow?
Alex
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
If the documents are password protected against opening, the simple
solution would be to ask the ex-employee for the password. If they
are protected for forms see http://www.gmayor.com/Remove_Password.htm
Word's encryption is highly effective and you will not easily get
past it. --
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
Alex Samol wrote:
Dear Group,
We have a common problem...employee quit and has many work and excel
documents password protected. This client is using Office 2000 Prem
and the OS is Windows XP pro. Can anyone help with removing the
password(s) off these office files?
Thanks,
Alex