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Remove editing restrictions in Word 2010 with 7zip

  1. Make a copy of the original document and rename it to have the .zip extension.
  2. Extract .zip file and in the contents find word\settings.xml
  3. Edit settings.xml to remove the XML element beginning with w:documentprotection. Remove everything including < and >
  4. Copy the word directory to the same location as your document.zip file.
  5. Rename your file to word.zip
  6. Right click word directory and choose 7zip → Add to “word.zip”
  7. Rename word.zip to yourformname.docx
  8. Do a little dance and be happy that this episode of your life is now over.

Source: http://itintheory.blogspot.co.at/2012/06/remove-editing-restrictions-in-word.html

tutorials/ms-word.txt · Last modified: 2013/12/23 21:33 by nine