How to Decrypt a Word Document

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When a Word document is password-protected, we can typically open it with the protected password and decrypt it as follows: To unprotect the Word document, select File > Info > Protect Document > Encrypt with password, remove the password from the text box, and then click OK.

You will learn three methods in the following article to unlock Word documents both online and offline.

  1. Get an Office Password Remover tool as the first step.
  2. Set up and launch the software on your PC.
  3. Click the ‘Open’ button to import the Word document into the application.
  4. Press the ‘Remove Password’ button, and your Word document will soon be password-free via encryption.

Word (.doc) and Word (.docx) files with passwords that are no more than three characters can be opened with this method.

  1. Open a freshly created Word document.
  2. Open Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications by pressing ‘Alt + F11’.
  3. Choose Module by clicking Insert.
  4. Fill in the module with the VBA codes.
  5. To run it, press ‘F5’. Next, choose the Word document that is locked, and then click Open in the File Explorer.
  6. The encrypted password appears in the small box when the Word document that is password-protected is opened in read-only mode.

The (.doc) and (.docx) file formats for Word 2016/2013/2010/2007/2003/2000 can be used with this method.

  1. Download and install the Word password recovery tool on your PC.
  2. To import your locked Word document into the program, click the ‘Open’ button.
  3. To reduce the time it takes to recover a password, choose a recovery type and adjust the recovery settings.
  4. Select the ‘Start’ button to initiate the Word password recovery procedure.
  5. Watch for the process of recovering your password. The password will appear in the pop-up box once it has been recovered. At that point, you can use the recovered password to decrypt your Word document.

Let’s see how to get the encryption out of Word.

It’s easy to remove a password from a document, but you’ll need to know what the original password was.

  1. Enter the password and open the document.
  2. Go to ENCRYPT WITH PASSWORD under FILE > INFO > PROTECT DOCUMENT.
  3. Click OK after removing the password from the PASSWORD box.