Word Password Recovery

Word Password Recovery is a straightforward piece of software designed to help you recover lost or forgotten passwords from Word documents. It offers support for Microsoft Office from the 97 to the 2010 editions.

The installation procedure takes little time to finish and does not require special attention from the user. Once it is done, you can run the app to view a wizard-like layout and point out a password-protected Word file using the file browser only, since drag-and-drop is not supported.

There are three password recovery methods available. A brute-force attack runs all possible combinations of letters (uppercase and lowercase), numbers and special characters.

If you remember any details about the password, then you can specify the minimal and maximal length, exclude lowercase/uppercase letters or digits, as well as include space, special symbols and user-defined symbols.

Mask attack mode can be used if you recall a segment of the password, while the dictionary method runs all combinations in a dictionary. The last option also lets you point out a plain text document with words to try.

Word Password Recovery has a good response time and may take a while to carry out a password retrieval job, depending on the password complexity and settings applied. No error dialogs were shown in our tests though, and the app did not hang or crash. We have not come across any issues.

Unfortunately, Word Password Recovery has not been updated for a while, and it does not offer support for Microsoft Office 2013 at the moment. Other than that, it delivers a fast method for recovering lost or forgotten passwords to Word documents, backed up by intuitive options which are suitable for all users, regardless of their level of experience.