I hesitate to enter a thread full of silly arguments, but if the Word
documents were created, and password-protected by Word, in 1994 they were
obfuscated, using XOR, rather than really encrypted and, although I don't
personally know of any software that can break this, I have no doubt some is
available, and that it is a trivial task for modern PCs. I would imagine a
web search would turn up something helpful.
You may, though, have other problems with such old documents (depending what
version of Word you are currently using).
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Enjoy,
Tony
www.WordArticles.com
"Water and Trees" wrote in message
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In 1994 I prepared documents saving them to 3 1/2" discs. Recently found
the
discs (there's a whole box) and would like to access them. No slot on my
current computer for them, but have a friend whose computer does still
allow
discs. My problem is wanting to by-pass the passwords I set for myself
back
in 1994.
These are basic Word documents and there may be a few WordPerfect
documents
on these discs as well. I just want to get by the passwords and get to
the
documents.
Any suggestions are appreciated!
Thanks,
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WaterandTrees