Advanced Office 97 Password Recovery
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(c) 1998-99 Andy Malyshev, Elcom Ltd.


* System requirements
* Overview
* Registration
* History
* Contact information


System requirements
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- Pentium or higher CPU
- Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT operating system
- about 1.5 megabyte of space on hard disk


Overview
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Advanced Office 97 Password Recovery (or simply AO97PR) has been
designed for recovering the lost passwords for Microsoft Office 97
and Office 2000 documents. In addition, it can be used for
analysing the security of your Office documents. You can recover
passwords for  Microsoft Word, Excel and Access 97/2000 (Access 95
is also supported).

The program is compatible with all international (non-english)
versions of MS Office.

The "open" passwords for Word/Excel files created in French version
of Microsoft Office (actually, in any version, but with French
regional settings) and for Access 95/97/2000 databases can be decrypted
instantly; recovering other ones is done using brute-force and
dictionary attacks (sometimes time-consuming). See help files for
more deails.

In addition, the program can recover (instantly!) the
write-reservation passwords in Word and Excel (the one required
to make the modifications to the file), as well as the passwords for
workbook and individual sheets in Excel, and document protection
password in Word.

Note: this program cannot recover the passwords for documents
created with older versions of Microsoft Word (2.0, 6.0, 7.0/95)
and Microsoft Excel (4.0, 5.0, 7.0/95). If you have such ones,
please use our "Advanced Office 95 Password Recovery":

http://www.elcomsoft.com/ao95pr.html


Registration
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The program is shareware; fully registered version costs $60
(personal license) or $120 (business license). See "order.txt"
for more details.


History
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See "whatsnew.txt".


Contact information
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Please send your suggestions and bug reports to
support@elcomsoft.com. The most current version of AO97PR is
always available at:

http://www.elcomsoft.com/ao97pr.html

Other password recovery products (for ZIP and ARJ archives;
Microsoft Word 2.0, 6.0 and 7.0/95; Microsoft Excel 4.0, 5.0
and 7.0/95; VBA Projects, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft
Backup, Windows NT users) are available at:

http://www.elcomsoft.com/prs.html