The Microsoft Office suite greatly evolved over the years and even updated its file formats. Chances are it’s your old-time favorite text editor and you have a bunch of old password-protected files around, but forgot the password. To bypass such inconveniences, you can rely on applications like iSunshare Word Password Remover.

One of the main advantages here is that the application works on its own, in the sense that you only require the password-protected file, and not the whole Office suite installed on your computer. On the other hand, it’s also mandatory that your Internet connection is up and running so that the decryption server can be reached.

As such, most of your effort narrows down to providing the file. There is, however, one particular thing you need to be aware of, namely that the target file needs to be a product of Word 97-2003, so don’t get frustrated if you attempt to load a newly created DOCX, password-protected document and it refuses to load. The format you have to deal with is DOC.

Although the application does require an active Internet connection to be able to decrypt your content, it does so by uploading just a small portion of the header to breach the “Open” password, while leaving the original content intact, thus keeping your private info safe.

The operation can seem to last for quite a while, but this is hardly the application’s fault. Elapsed time only depends on the strength of the password, which can be composed of different character sets, character casing, symbols, numbers, and more. Even the length has a considerable effect on the decryption attempt.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that iSunshare Word Password Remover is sure to come in handy if you stumble upon old, password-protected Word files and realize there’s quite a lot of important data there.