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How to Edit A Protected Word Document Without Password
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what you guys going to have a video here
for you this is just another quick video
on how to edit a password-protected file
so you can see here we have a word
document and I've been asked for this
video quite a bit and you can see here
we have a word document that is
protected with a password so if I look
at this and push try to edit any of this
content here what's going to happen is
you're going to get this restrict
editing and you can see here it says
stop protection so the only way you can
stop the protection is if you know the
password and that's pretty much
impossible I'm going to show you a
really easy way to get around this if
you have a document that you wish to
edit now sometimes you may be thinking
that how's this going to ever happen
well if you work in a company and you've
got a temporary staff there and may
create a document just like this and
it's protected which the normally is the
case and that person then leaves
sometimes they forget to give you the
password and then they can't edit the
document and this is quite a common
thing that happens so I'm going to show
you how you can get around this now you
will have to do a couple of little edits
after you've done this but it should be
pretty much okay ad to deal with so
let's start off with closing it off now
we have the original here as you can see
so what I'm going to do we're going to
right-click and open with now once we've
opened with we can now choose another
application go to more apps and pull
down to the required program that you
want to use we're going to be using
WordPad here click WordPad we don't have
to always use this app we're just going
to use it once click OK and there you
can see it's opened this up in WordPad
now this will allow me to make edits
believe it or not so you can just make
it it's like so so you can take out what
you like and
password now has been removed so here
you can see we have got all this content
here now theoretically you could save
this as another file if you wanted to so
you could actually copy and paste this
in physically if you wanted to do that
by just doing this or you can save it as
another document but if you wanted to do
that you could open up word and just
copy and paste that in so we're just
gonna go to here and we're going to
paste this in like so
and they have it we have the document
all copied and we can now edit this
document as you the will see just like
so now also if you wanted to get around
that you could also open save that file
into you can save this file which is the
WordPad file which you can see here
WordPad at the top you can save this
file as another particular type of file
without copying and pasting it so if you
wanted to do that you could do so by
looking here as you can see my rich text
of text format you can save it as an
office open XML document you can save it
to whatever you like and it will open up
in there the problem with doing it this
way is sometimes it does make changes to
the text format and I'll show you that
quickly before we stop there so I'm just
going to quickly put a 2 in front of
that something notice that that's the
version we can close this off now so
here we have our new document number two
so without copying and pasting if we
open this up you'll see that the links
have changed and you'd have to redo all
those links here which isn't a big deal
but it's just a little bit more of a
fast to mess around with but if you
wanted to get around that you could just
copy and paste it just like I did there
that's basically how you can make edits
to a password-protected document by
using this method I hope this one
elsewhere I'm pretty sure it will do
it'll help someone my name is Brad from
Brad tech computers Cody Kay if you
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