Let's try these.

If you can open the template, just do copy and paste to a new document, then
save it as a new template. You might still have to do some adjustment but at
least it should be less work than otherwise.

Failing that, the password switch on/off is somewhere in the registry but I
do not know where. You need to decide whether the time spent hunting for this
registry location could not be better spent redoing your template but this
time you protect it instead.

Hope this help,
jes

"Joy" wrote:

Someone in my office password protected a public template that anyone can use
and now I can not change any formatting. How do I override? No one knows
who did it and what the password is.