Mar 05 2010
Remove document edit protection in Word XP/2003/2007
Recently I had to modify the header and footer of a word document. I didn’t notice it before, but it was edit protected, so all the options in word, such as cut and paste, where grayed out. I found out a simple way to remove document protection from a Word 2007 document, but not for a .doc document. Well, it’s really simple! Just convert the Word XP/2003 document to the new .docx format and then open it as a zip file (just rename it to .zip), edit the settings.xml file, removing the attributes of the <w:documentProtection> tag, update the zip file, rename it to .docx and opne it! You’re done!
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