Well, firstly update to Open Office 2:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/2.0/featureguide.html
If that's not possible, the easiest thing might be to fire up your
VMWare instance and run the document through MS Office thusly:
1.) Open a protected document in Word.
2.) Choose the Save As Web Page (*.htm; *.html) option and close
Word.
3.) Open the HTML document in any text editor.
4.) Search the <w:UnprotectPassword> tag for a line that looks
like: <w:UnprotectPassword>ABCDEF01</w:UnprotectPassword>.
Gather the password.
5.) Open the original .doc document with any hex editor.
6.) Search for hex values of the password (reverse order).
7.) Overwrite all four double-bytes with 0x00. Save, and close.
8.) Open the document in Word. Select Tools, Unprotect Document.
Password is blank.
(Courtesy Thorsten Delbrouck)
Parts 3-7 are a 20-minute perl script if you have to do this much.
-Bill
(and my mention of perl is purely intended to provoke a pythonista into
posting working code here within the next hour so I don't have to do it
myself).
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