Software utilities

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!

Today I created a workbook in Excel 2007. After working on it, i closed the file pressing the small red X at the top of the docuemnt. Everything was ok. But after that I tried closing Excel, and guess what… it didn’t! Also, besides remaining open, all the menu items and buttons where grayed out! The only one which wasn’t was the send –> Bluetooth menu! So I went to the add-in menu and disabled the option, and that’s it, noew everything works fine! Remember that to disable the option you have to opne Excel as an Administrator. I cannot do this in the start menu as I can do for almost every pogram, so i had to go to the program files foider (or, if you have win64, program files(x86)), then microsoft office, then office 12, and there right-click on excel.exe and choose run as administrator. After doing this, click the windows logo on the top left, choose excel options, then add-ins, the on the drop down list choose COM add ins, and there finally you can disable the bluetooth add-in in Excel 2007!

Enjoy!