Office Password Unlocker for Windows

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Download.com staffJuly 31, 2026

Anyone who's ever tried to open or edit an important Microsoft Word or Excel document, only to find it's protected by a long-lost or never-known password, will appreciate PasswordUnlocker's Office Password Unlocker. It's a handy tool that unlocks password-protected Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access documents so they can be opened and edited by anyone. You can also use it to recover forgotten Office passwords. It's compatible with all versions of Microsoft Office from 97 to 2007.

Office Password Unlocker opens with a basic gray dialog box typical of the Office family, which means functional but unexciting in an efficient, businesslike way. You can select one of three password attack modes: Brute-Force Attack, Brute-Force with Mask Attack, for when some password symbols are known, and Dictionary Attack. The Dictionary Attack mode is based on a customizable dictionary that you create to your specifications. There's a Help file in the File Menu and functional control icons. You enter the full file path to the locked document, click OK, and Office Password Unlocker gets cracking. There's an option to save a recovery process to resume it later, if it's interrupted or runs long. In tests, the program quickly unlocked Word documents for opening and editing.

Office Password Unlocker is free to try and $18.69 to buy. The trial version won't display passwords longer than three characters, and it disables the Password to Open and Password to Modify command. It works in all versions of Windows from 2000 to 7, including NT and Vista.

Office Password Unlocker for Windows

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GENERAL

Release: September 14, 2012

Latest update: July 31, 2026

Version: 5.2

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 2003
Windows 2000
Windows Vista
Windows XP
Windows 8
Windows 7

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Total Downloads: 30,322

Downloads Last Week: 0

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User Reviews

1.8/5

4 User Votes

Problems with adware and LuckyLeap
faldi66September 17, 2013
Pros
Don't know honestly: had so many installation problems that did not even dare to try it
Cons
Has adware, gives problems since installation (messages about problems with LuckyLeap)
Summary
My advice: do not install it
Poor Performance and Horrible Graphical Interface
afrank11October 7, 2012
Pros
It will solve Excel passwords of three characters with ease.
Cons
The User Interface = horrible. If you have switchable graphics and unplug your computer, you will no longer be able to see the interface--just a blank screen. If you stop and try to change the settings to fast, the screen will lock up and task manager will say its waiting on input from you. The words on the screen are cutoff and short and you can not read the entire field description or update. Also, it will stay on the same percentage complete. I let it run for 22 hours it updated the number of passwords, but the percentage stalled at .0209% because I paused and started it again. Furthermore, i went to do something else on the computer and it froze after the 22 hours and just died on me. Dictionary/Mask attack does not allow you to do a "contains" with a set pattern. I am using an i7 Quadcore processor with 8GB Ram and a Switchable 1GB GPU. According to its own measure it does about 1000 passwords per second, but even this is not easy to read because the GUI is so messed up.
Summary
I wish I could get my money back. This was a horrible application to spend my money on in terms of the user interface and I have not been able to benefit at all from the password cracking ability. Unless you are doing small passwords be prepared for this application to take weeks to crack a password where you only know limited data and not sure of the exact size of the password above 5 characters.
Very disappointed. Useful for very short passwords only
warbrookJune 17, 2010
Pros
1. Quickly finds short passwords, e.g. up to four characters. Five characters took a while, but OK if you don't wish to use your PC for anything else while that's going on. 2. Permits user to save current search upon exit. Resumes when reopened.
Cons
1. The Idle / High setting doesn't make any difference to the program's operational speed. It chooses max speed on either setting. 2. Limited usefulness on passwords longer than five characters. 3. Software technicians don't respond to user emails.
Summary
The trial download permits three-character password unlock and is very fast. It wasn't until I'd purchased the software that I discovered its limitations. The program runs at max speed regardless of the selected setting - Idle or High. On my PC - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 2.2 GHz, RAM 3 GB - it maxed out the dual core CPU and rendered the PC useless for any other operation while the unlocker was running. (I tried to use other programs (e.g. email) a couple of times and crashed my PC.) Max speed is OK for short passwords, as the process is over quite quickly. However, once you attempt to search for a password over five characters - even five takes a while - you're there for the long haul - days, weeks or months. That would be OK also if the program would allocate some resources to other programs. Alas, it takes the lot. So the only time you could use the program would be overnight and I found that my cooling fans were also maxing out while Unlocker was giving the CPU such a constant flogging. It's fine for a short while, but not hour after hour after day after week, perhaps after month for longer passwords. And what's the use of using short passwords these days, when programs like Office Password Unlocker can crack them in minutes? If you are in the habit of using short passwords, say, up to four characters, this product could be worth the price you'll pay for it. (I paid $42 Australian.) However, if you have longer passwords that you've forgotten, you'll need something far better than Office Password Unlocker. I attempted to get some technical assistance with the Idle / High malfunction (over a period of a week), but my emails were ignored. I'm very disappointed with the product, but can't be bothered activating a PayPal dispute for $42.
I had my word "password to open" in about 1 minute!!
klingcamNovember 14, 2009
Pros
Trial version was super-quick to dload. Uses almost no space. Sooo easy to execute and understand. It's FREE. Doesn't seem to have a password character length limitation.
Cons
So far, no cons. Only used it once to get me out of a bind where I brain-farted and forgot my own "password to open" on an important document.
Summary
Dloaded the trial version in about 10 secs. I had no clue what "password to open" I had used for an important MSWord 2002 document (OK, I'm an idiot, but my bad). Ran the TRIAL ver. of program while I read the help file. By the time I closed the help file, the program had cracked the password & provided it. I would say, about 1 minute. Now true, I had only used a simple dictionary word to protect my doc, but the program found it immediately and beat the hell out of: Word Password Recovery trial version. which took approx. 6 hours to crack the password, and then AFTERWARDS informs you that it was successful but ya can't have it until you pay them $29.99. Let's see, is this program worth $29.99 if it took 6 hours to do what Office Password Unlocker did in 1 minute? It was a waste of time and a bogus marketing ploy. Office Password Unlocker was fast and simple to dload, uses almost no memory, has a simple interface, incredibly easy to use/understand, and replaced a few of my grey hairs with my natural color in about 1 minute. Not sure how this program would perform with a more complex password, but it got me out of a bind super-fast...and that's what I was looking to do. Two thumbs way up!!

Developer’s Description

By PasswordUnlocker

Remove lost or forgotten MS Word/Excel passwords.