I have a document that is read-only. The person has since left the company and so I have no way of getting the password. I’d like to make changes and save it to a new file, but when I do that (using Save As…) it saves as still read only and doesn’t give me an option to change the password. How can I either change the password or save to a file that’s not read-only?
Thanks!
You could try this, I haven’t used it but the free one is worth a shot.
Open the file as read-only.
Go to Tools, then choose Options, then click on the **Security ** tab.
Remove the password (highlight and delete)
Go to File, then choose Save As.
Change the file name and click Save.
Have you tried selecting all the text and copying it into a newly created document? Then save it under another name. I just tried it and it works for me although I suppose there could be different levels of protection on your document that don’t allow selecting and copying the text.
The password isn’t listed there in my version. It’s blank.
The “Security” tab didn’t show for me, but copy/paste did. I thought it wouldn’t copy over all the images and formatting, but it did. Thank you!
What version of Word are you running? My answer was for Word 2002. Sorry.
Yep, that’s a real secure environment right there.