How to clear the editable password

Aspose.Words Product Family
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Hi to all,
I have a question that a document cannot be edited if it has been protected by editing password. How to clear this password by aspose.words.dll version 14 based on VB.net?

Thanks in advance!

Ducaisoft

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@ducaisoft,

Please ZIP and attach your sample Word document here for testing. We will then investigate the issue on our end and provide you more information.

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AsposeTests.zip (72.4 KB)
Thank you for your response!
Please refer to the testing doc files and the demo VB.net project.

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@ducaisoft,

You can remove protection from the document by providing correct password to the Document.Unprotect method.

Document doc = new Document("E:\\AsposeTests\\Input.docx");
doc.Unprotect("000000");
doc.Save("E:\\AsposeTests\\19.1.docx");

Hope, this helps.

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Thank you very much for your prompt response!

A new issue appear if the protection password is not known. If so ,how to clear the password or unprotect document?

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@ducaisoft,

Then you can use the other overload of Unprotect method (the one that does not take any parameters):

Document doc = new Document("E:\\AsposeTests\\Input.doc");
doc.Unprotect();
doc.Save("E:\\AsposeTests\\19.1.doc");
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It works! Well done!
Thanks!