Thread: Ways to Add/ Edit/ Remove password to an Office document without opening it?
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Old 11-23-2014, 02:32 PM
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Unless you want to get into writing data to the disk sectors used by a file, you cannot edit a file without opening it. There are also ways of modifying some passwords by editing the file with a Hex editor, for example, but that still requires opening the file.
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