turn off "password to open" feature

[Martin]

Hi everyone,

I need to disable "password to open" feature because I
have a problem when some users quit the office and left
word documents with "password to open". I prefer to
disable the option than use a software to crack the
password.

Any Ideas?

Thanks in advance....
Martin

 

[Jezebel]

There's no setting for it, that I'm aware of, but you could do it by writing
macros called FileSave and FileSaveAs that mimic the built-in functions,
preceded by the line ActiveDocument.Password = "".

 

[Martin]

Thanks for help.
Do you know if this option just work with new documents or
with every document that I will open too.
Martin

 

[Jezebel]

Not sure how well it work at all -- it was just a suggestion. It has no
effect as such on existing documents (you'll still need the password to open
them if they were saved that way) ... it just aims to stop you applying a
password to any document you save, including clearing the existing password
for any existing document.