Hello and greetings to all.



I have made brochures using powerpoint 2007 and saved these files as slide show ppsx, after making it password protect to prevent editing by others.

Unfortunately, I have forgotten the password and I need to edit the brochure and having tried all possible password and combinations in vain, I am stuck.

I googled for password recovery but they are all paid software.

Any ideas on how to recover or are there any free password recovery tool?

Thanks & Regards

I think your best option is to study up on and use a hex editor.

http://www.tech-faq.com/microsoft-po...-recovery.html

I don't think discussions on password cracking are a very good idea BUT so you don't waste your time I wouldn't spend too much time on trying to use a hex editor. Despite a lot of inaccurrate info on the net it's really not simple to change the password in hex.

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Agreed that we should not spend any more time on this subject that is the main reason I encouraged THEM to research it.

Thanks John

It's OK I did understand your reason.

However the site you linked to is typical of the misinformation. Trust me the normal user cannot "Simply edit the modify password in a Hex Editor". We had a client last month who had wasted literally days trying before asking for help!

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