How to remove edit protection from a word document. Remove protection from editing a document in Microsoft Word
If you downloaded a document in MS Word format from the Internet, or you were given some kind of plan at work, at an institute or school, then there is a high probability that the opportunity to edit this document will be limited.
What does it mean? This means that the document has been protected from editing and copying by the person who last opened it. Accordingly, you cannot change anything in the text or copy the desired fragment. And if you try, an area will open on the right, as shown in the screenshot below. At the bottom of this area there will be a button "Disable protection", but by clicking on it, a window will appear for entering the password that was set when restricting editing.
Considering that we do not know the password, let's look at how you can turn off the protection against editing and copying text in the Word so that you can again make the necessary changes in the text.
Removing copy protection and text editing
You can remove protection by changing the extension of the document itself from * .docx to * .zip and slightly correcting one file from the created archive. Using this way, it will be possible to remove the protection against text editing, in whatever version the document was created: in Word 2007, 2010, 2013 or 2016.
Before you start working with the locked file itself, you need to make sure that their extensions are shown in Explorer. To do this, open Windows explorer (go to any folder or click on "My Computer"), click on the "Organize" button and select from the list. It's in the operating room windows system 7.
If you have Windows 10 installed, then open Explorer and go to the "View" tab. At the top right there will be a button "Options", click on it and select "Change folder and search options".
After that, this window will open. In it, go to the "View" tab. In section "Extra options" need to find an item Hide extensions for registered file types and uncheck the box next to it. Then click "Apply" and "OK".
Now, next to the name of the document we need, the editing of which is locked, its extension is also shown.
Select it by clicking on it once with the mouse. Then click on the name of the file itself. When a field for editing the name appears, remove the * .docx extension and enter * .zip instead. In the example, the file was named "Word.docx" and became "Word.zip". As you can see, we do not change the name.
When such a window appears, click "Yes" in it.
We go into the newly created archive. It will contain several files and folders. Find the "word" folder and go to it. In the folder you will see - we need it. Click on it with the left mouse button, and without releasing the button, drag the file to the desktop.
Then right-click on which you have placed on the desktop and select from context menu "To open with"... From the offered programs, you can choose the usual one.
The selected file will open in Notepad. Now you need to find the tag that deals with protection and fix it a little. To open the search box, press Ctrl + F. Then enter the word "Protection" in the search bar and click "Find Next".
This word will be highlighted in the text. As you can see, in the parameters - "edit", "readOnly" is indicated, which means that this Word document can be used only for reading. Delete the fragment.
This screenshot shows the text in which the unnecessary line has been removed. Then click to save the changes made to the document.
To do this, select it on the desktop, and without releasing the left mouse button, drag the file back to the archive. A dialog box will appear in which make sure that in the "Update Method" field is selected Add and replace files and click OK.
Rename our again word document... Only now we are making a Word file from the archive - change the extension from * .zip to * .docx. In the dialog box that appears, click Yes.
You can go to the document, the text in which was protected from editing. As you can see, the protection in Word is unchecked, and you can print in the document or copy the desired text from it.
The second option for removing protection
Let's look at another way that will help remove the protection of the required document. It is simpler than the previous one. I will show using MS Word 2010 as an example, these recommendations are also suitable for those who have Word 2007 and Word 2013 installed. If you have MS Word 2016, then the steps are the same, only the necessary buttons can be in other tabs.
You need to start by creating a new document. This is done like this: "Start" - "All Programs", find the folder “ Microsoft Office"And click on the item" Microsoft Word» .
In the new document, go to the Insert tab. In the "Text" section, click on the little arrow next to the "Object" button. Select from the list.
After that, all the text from the protected document will be inserted into a new file you opened. And in it there will already be an opportunity to change the text and copy it.
I hope you find these recommendations useful. It is not so difficult to remove protection from a document in which editing and copying of text is prohibited, choose one of the described methods and again work with the necessary files.
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Many thanks!
The first method did not help: the word "protection" could not be found.
And the second one just came up!
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Neither method works. office 2016, word file protected simple password... When creating an archive, the file you are looking for is missing, three items - the 6 DataSpaces folder, two EncryptedPacage & EncrypionInfo files in none, including in the folder and subfolders when viewing in a notebook, neither setting nor protections were found.
! This article will not help you solve the encryptor virus problem, unfortunately. Only common sense and backup will save you from these malware. By the way, if you think that backup to a shared folder on the office network or to the D: \\ drive is a panacea, you are wrong. The virus can easily walk through the balls available to the current user.
You can remove protection from a Word document that is protected, for example, from editing or printing, without any programs to remove protection, you do not have to think about what kind of virus you will put into your system along with this software. So...
Protected Word Document Save As HTML
Run microsoft program Word, execute the command "File" - "Open" or click the "Open" button on the standard toolbar. Select the document you want to unlock. To unprotect a Word document, run the "File" - "Save As" command. Select the save location, set the file type to "Web page" and click "OK". After that, you can remove protection from the Word document.
Open the folder where you saved the document as a web page. This file will have an HTML extension. Right-click on this document, select "Open With" to unprotect the document, select Notepad. Find the following tag in the document code using the Search By command:
HEX editor will remove protection!
You can also open the document in hex editor, find the password value, overwrite it with four 0x00s. Next, open the document in Word, and use a blank password to remove the protection of the document.
Unprotect a document by DOCX -\u003e ZIP -\u003e DOCX
Means that if you need to remove protection from a document, already in dOCX format, you can skip this step and immediately change the file extension to ZIP.
Save the document in .docx format. Change the file extension to .zip (open the context menu on the file, click Rename, delete .docx, type in .zip instead). Open the resulting archive, select the settings.xml file, click the "Extract" button. Discover this file through text editor, find the next tag
Good evening, site users. In today's tutorial, we will talk about how you can remove a password from a MS Word document.
To protect documents from editing and making any changes, they are often password protected. For example, companies password-protect various contracts or agreements so that the client cannot make changes to it.
This lesson is shown using an example of the program MS Word 2010... In version 2007 years to remove the password, you need to follow the same steps.
Step 1. Save the document in .docx format
Step 2. Change the extension
Now you need to change the extension of the saved file from .docx on .zip... You can also change it to .rar (no difference). To do this, open any file manager and find the document you need there:
Right click on the file and select Rename.
Remove extension .docx and write .zip... Next press Enter or click on the file left mouse button.
Now our file will have the extension .zip and will have an archive icon:
Step 3. Open the archive
Now we find the resulting archive and open it. Find the folder in the archive Word and click on it:
Step 4. The settings.xml file
In the folder we find a file called settings.xml (expansion .xml).
We open it with any editor, used in the example. After opening the file, you will see many lines of code. We need the one called w: documentProtection... You need to completely remove this tag, i.e. from
After removing the tag, save the document ( Ctrl + S).
Step 5. Save the file with replacement
After saving the file, go to the archive. A window will appear with the message:
Need to press a button OK.
Step 6. Change the extension to .docx
Now go back to the file manager and change the file extension to .docx (Rename):
Step 7. Final result
Now open a Word document and enjoy the result. The password will be removed and you can edit the document.
This concludes the lesson. Thanks for attention!
You can mark a document as read-only, but still allow changes to be made to parts of it.
Such parts with removed restrictions you can make it available to anyone who opens the document, or you can grant permission to edit these parts of the document to individual users.
Protecting the document and marking the parts where changes are allowed
When you open a protected document in Word, the ability to edit it is determined by the presence or absence of permission from the owner of the document to make changes to a certain part of it.
In the field of tasks Restrict Editing buttons are displayed to navigate to areas of the document where the user is allowed to change.
If you do not have permission to modify any part of the document when you click the buttons in the task pane Restrict Editing Word will disallow editing and display the message "Word has finished searching in the document."
Find parts that can be edited
If you close the task pane Restrict Editing and you try to make a change that you do not have permission to, the following message will appear in the status bar:
additional information
Unlocking a secure document
To remove all protection from a document, you may need the password that was applied to the document. Perhaps you should be listed as the authenticated owner for the document.
Modifying a Restricted Document
When you open a protected document in Microsoft Word 2010, the ability to change is determined by the presence or absence of permission granted by the owner of the document to make changes to a specific part of it.
The task pane displays buttons for navigating to areas of the document in which the user is allowed to change.
If you do not have permission to change any part of the document when you click the buttons in the task pane Limit formatting and editing Word disallows editing and displays the message "Word has finished searching in this document."
If you close the task pane and try to make a change for which you do not have permission, the following message appears in the status bar:
This change is prohibited because the selection is locked.
To return to the task pane and find the fragment that is allowed to change, do the following:
additional information
Adding protection and marking parts in which changes are allowed
Unlocking a secure document
Permission to change a document is not the same as permission to remove protection from a document. Even if everyone is allowed to change the content of the document, only authorized owners and users who enter the correct password can remove protection.
Modifying a Restricted Document
When someone opens a protected document in Microsoft Office Word 2007, their ability to make changes is determined by whether that user has been granted edit permission for a specific portion. When opening a document in the task pane Limit formatting and editing buttons are displayed to navigate to areas of the document that you can modify. If permission to edit parts of the document is granted allthen anyone who opens the document can navigate to these areas by clicking Find the next area I can edit.
If only individual users have permission to edit parts of a document, no one else can navigate to those areas. For everyone else when clicking buttons in the taskbar Limit formatting and editing Office Word 2007 will disallow editing and display a "Document Search Completed" message.
Opening the Restrict Formatting and Editing Task Pane
If you close the task pane and try to make a change for which you do not have permission, the following message appears in the Word 2007 status bar:
This change is prohibited because the selection is locked.
To return to the task pane and find the fragment that is allowed to change, do the following.
If you downloaded a document in MS Word format from the Internet, or you were given some kind of plan at work, at an institute or school, then there is a high probability that the ability to edit this document will be limited.
What does it mean? This means that the document has been protected from editing and copying by the person who last opened it. Accordingly, you cannot change anything in the text or copy the desired fragment. And if you try, an area will open on the right, as shown in the screenshot below. At the bottom of this area there will be a button "Disable protection", but by clicking on it, a window will appear for entering the password that was set when restricting editing.
Considering that we do not know the password, let's look at how you can turn off the protection against editing and copying text in the Word so that you can again make the necessary changes in the text.
Removing copy protection and text editing
You can remove protection by changing the extension of the document itself from * .docx to * .zip and slightly correcting one file from the created archive. Using this method, it will be possible to remove protection from text editing, no matter what version of the document was created: in Word 2007, 2010, 2013 or 2016.
Before you start working with the locked file itself, you need to make sure that their extensions are shown in Explorer. To do this, open Windows Explorer (go to any folder or click on "My Computer"), click on the "Organize" button and select from the list. It's in operating system Windows 7.
If you have Windows 10 installed, then open Explorer and go to the "View" tab. At the top right there will be a button "Options", click on it and select "Change folder and search options".
After that, this window will open. In it, go to the "View" tab. In section "Extra options" need to find an item Hide extensions for registered file types and uncheck the box next to it. Then click "Apply" and "OK".
Now, next to the name of the document we need, the editing of which is locked, its extension is also shown.
Select it by clicking on it once with the mouse. Then click on the name of the file itself. When a field for editing the name appears, remove the * .docx extension and enter * .zip instead. In the example, the file was named "Word.docx" and became "Word.zip". As you can see, we do not change the name.
When such a window appears, click "Yes" in it.
We go into the newly created archive. It will contain several files and folders. Find the "word" folder and go to it. In the folder you will see - we need it. Click on it with the left mouse button, and without releasing the button, drag the file to the desktop.
Then right-click on which you have placed on the desktop and select from the context menu "To open with"... From the offered programs, you can choose the usual one.
The selected file will open in Notepad. Now you need to find the tag that deals with protection and fix it a little. To open the search box, press Ctrl + F. Then enter the word "Protection" in the search bar and click "Find Next".
This word will be highlighted in the text. As you can see, in the parameters - "edit", "readOnly" is indicated, which means that this Word document can be used only for reading. Delete the fragment.
This screenshot shows the text in which the unnecessary line has been removed. Then click to save the changes made to the document.
To do this, select it on the desktop, and without releasing the left mouse button, drag the file back to the archive. A dialog box will appear in which make sure that in the "Update Method" field is selected Add and replace files and click OK.
Rename our Word document again. Only now we are making a Word file from the archive - change the extension from * .zip to * .docx. In the dialog box that appears, click Yes.
You can go to the document, the text in which was protected from editing. As you can see, the protection in Word is unchecked, and you can print in the document or copy the desired text from it.
The second option for removing protection
Let's look at another way that will help remove the protection of the required document. It is simpler than the previous one. I will show using MS Word 2010 as an example, these recommendations are also suitable for those who have Word 2007 and Word 2013 installed. If you have MS Word 2016, then the steps are the same, only the necessary buttons can be in other tabs.
You need to start by creating a new document. This is done like this: "Start" - "All Programs", find the folder "Microsoft Office" and click on the item "Microsoft Word" in it.
In the new document, go to the Insert tab. In the "Text" section, click on the little arrow next to the "Object" button. Select from the list.
After that, all the text from the protected document will be inserted into a new file you opened. And in it there will already be an opportunity to change the text and copy it.
I hope you find these recommendations useful. It is not so difficult to remove protection from a document in which editing and copying of text is prohibited, choose one of the described methods and again work with the necessary files.
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Many thanks!
The first method did not help: the word "protection" could not be found.
And the second one just came up!
Reply
Neither method works. office 2016, the word file is protected by a simple password. When creating an archive, the file you are looking for is missing, three items - the 6 DataSpaces folder, two EncryptedPacage & EncrypionInfo files in none, including in the folder and subfolders when viewing in a notebook, neither setting nor protections were found.
