How to Unlock A Word Document for Editing

[Music] have you ever encountered such an annoying thing you need to edit a word document for work or any other reason but only to find the editing is restricted and you are locked outside of the door but you really need to make some edits so you try to enter the password which is not easy to guess right of course after failing too many times you completely have no idea what to do so is there really no way out definitely not today in this video i will offer you some remedies want to check out what they are exactly now please give a thumbs up and subscribe to us and then continue your watching method 1 renaming file extension [Music] step one rename the extension from dot dot x to dot zip and click yes to confirm the alteration step two now open the zip file with windows explorer step 3 click on the word folder and find the file named settings.xml and delete it from the list after that change the file extension back to docx and you should now be able to edit the word file however there exists some limitations for example this method is not applicable to all versions of word it works for my word 2019 but not for my friends word 2016. method 2 saving the word document as rtf text step 1 open your restricted word document click on file save as in the new save as window choose star dot rtf as the file type step two close your original work document and the new star.rtf file then open the rtf file with notepad step 3 press ctrl plus f at the same time find password hash in the text and replace with no password step 4 save your operation and close the notepad open the rtf file again with your word program step 5 go to review restrict editing stop protection uncheck all the boxes on the right panel done the editing restriction on your word has been removed successfully now but as you can see this method requires too many steps and a minor slip would give birth to a total failure now we have talked about two methods renaming file extension and saving the word document as rtf text however it's disappointing that neither of them is time saving or easy to operate enough to solve our problem but don't worry there is still another method to get us out of trouble effectively at the top speed passport for word since i have already downloaded it to the computer next i will show you how to use it directly [Music] step 1 open password for word on your computer and select the remove restrictions step 2 import the restricted word file into the program by clicking on the select a file option and browsing for the file step 3 now click on the remove button to allow the program to begin removing the restriction in a few seconds all restrictions will be removed and the document will be editable remove editing restrictions on word document in just a few seconds with a hundred percent success rate password for word is undoubtedly a lifesaver if you want to have a try just click the download link below in the description for this video and in just a blink of an eye your problem will be solved well this is all for today's video i hope i've helped you and thanks very much for watching if you have any advice or questions about this video or any other topics you want to see in the next video please feel free to let your voice out in the comments area below ok see you next time

Channel: iMyFone

Views: 179,084

Keywords: unlock a word document for editing, unlock word for editing, unlock word doc for editing, unlock word 2007 document locked for editing

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Length: 4min 55sec (295 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 04 2020