If the password is used to inhibit opening of the document then no. The
document is encrypted and you need the password. The simplest approach would
be to contact the former employee. There are software cracking solutions
that you could use at your own risk, but they are not as impressive as the
demos would suggest and for a complex password can take hours - or longer -
of processing to determine the password, and then you have the issue of
giving your credit card details to someone who cracks passwords!

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Brendan Vassallo wrote:
I previous colleague of mine has passwrod protected a document and
has now left the company without revealing the password.

Is there any way that the password protection can be removed if the
password is not known?