MSWord protect unprotect read-only Archives ~ North West Translators' Network https://nwtn.org.uk/forums/topic-tag/msword-protect-unprotect-read-only/ North West Translators' Network Sat, 10 Jul 2021 14:07:04 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://nwtn.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-NWTN_Logo_Favicon-1-32x32.png MSWord protect unprotect read-only Archives ~ North West Translators' Network https://nwtn.org.uk/forums/topic-tag/msword-protect-unprotect-read-only/ 32 32 Unprotect Word document https://nwtn.org.uk/forums/topic/unprotect-word-document/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unprotect-word-document Thu, 08 Jul 2021 17:04:41 +0000 https://nwtn.org.uk/forums/topic/unprotect-word-document/ This applies to all Word file which can be opened without a password. Protections in Word (except the open file protection) can be easily removed when you save the file
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Protections in Word (except the open file protection) can be easily removed when you

  • save the file as RTF,
  • open the file in text mode (it’s plain ASCII), then
  • edit the RTF code, save and close it,
  • open it again as RTF and save it in the original format.

Look out for the string “prot” when editing the RTF code.

Click to download a PDF with step-by-step instructions.

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