Remove Document Protection in Word 2007

What a pain… need to edit a Microsoft Word 2007 form that was originally created by an individual who is no longer employed at my company. I can use Word but am a long way from being any kind of expert. So googled by questions and found I should save the dot document as a docx. Did that but could not edit because it was protected. Googled how to remove protection and came accross https://community.sgdotnet.org/blogs/kitkai/archive/2007/08/20/Remove-Document-Protection-against-Edit-in-Word-2007.aspx with the following that worked great:

  1. Rename the document to zip format
  2. Open it up in my favorite zip program
  3. Edit settings.xml in Notepad
  4. Look for "protection" in the xml file, and you will locate <w:documentProtection> element.
  5. Remove all the attributes in it.
  6. Update the zip file
  7. Rename the document back to docx
  8. Open it up in Word 2007, and you are able to edit the document…

Now I can edit .

47 thoughts on “Remove Document Protection in Word 2007

  1. Thank you for posting this. This is exactly what I needed to know. I have a form that I needed to crack for my job and the employee who created the form has long since left.

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  2. I tried this, whenever I open the document in 7zip there is no settings.xml file.
    Instead there is 6 files that are encrypted and scrabled.

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  3. That worked on Word 2011. After removing the attributes there was an error when opening the file. But Word was able to repair and open it.

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  4. Hi, thanks for a good job! It helped me a lot!
    In my case i need it to chnage some formating and then reprotect the file, so all I did different was in step 5. I didn’t erase everything just put the enforce parameter to 0, then after i was done, back to 1.

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  5. Worked great. I had to save the .xml file to the desktop to save the changes and then drag it into winzip to replace the existing file.

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  6. Hi, thanks for a good job! It helped me a lot!
    In my case i need it to chnage some formating and then reprotect the file, so all I did different was in step 5. I didnt erase everything just put the enforce parameter to 0, then after i was done, back to 1.
    +1

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