Re: Hacking a password "protected" word doc

From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Sat Sep 28 2002 - 12:30:08 EDT

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    You can only open the files with AbiWord if you have the correct
    passwords. This also precludes the ability of just extracting the
    formatting and ignoring the actual text contents.

    Dom

    On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 12:15 PM, ephemeron wrote:

    > I have a couple (actually more like a hundred) of
    > password "protected" MS Word documents from the days
    > when I still used Windows for my writing. Is there
    > any way to open them within Abiword? I, of course, have
    > forgotten the password(s).
    >
    > The content isn't the problem. I can cat the
    > files. What I'd like is to be able to retain the
    > formatting. The files are reviews where, for example,
    > certain words are italicized.
    >
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