Office Password Tuner User Guide

Retrieve Office document lost password with Office Password Tuner

Lost MS Office document password? Don't worry. This guide will show you how to use Office Password Tuner to recover Office document protection password and unlock the Office document instantly without damage.

This Office password tool works on MS Word (*.doc, *.docx) documents, Excel (*.xls, *xlsx) workbooks, PowerPoint (*.ppt, *.pptx) presentations, Outlook (*.pst) files, and Access (*.mdb, *.accdb) database files.

Video guide:

Step 1Start Office Password Tuner Program

1. Download Office Password Tuner and install it on your computer, and start it.

Step 2Import Office document

1. Click on Open button.
2. Select the Office document that you need to unlock, and then click on Open to import it into program.

   

Step 3Select recovery type and configure parameters

1. Below Recovery Type, click on the drop-down list to select an appropriate recovery type.
2. And then configure the cracking parameters, such as password Range and Length.

   

Step 4Start to recover Office document password

1. Click on Start button to begin the password recovery process.

2. How long it will take to recover Office document password, depends on the password complexity. The stronger of the password, the longer time it will take. So, wait for it patiently.
3. If want to suspend, click on Stop button, and you will be prompted to save the project. Click on Yes to save the project. If the Office Password Tuner application is not closed, the process of recovering password will be resumed automatically the next time you click on Start button.

Step 5Open Office document

1. When the Office document password is recovered, it will be showed on the popping up dialog box.
2. Click on Copy → Open, past the password on the text box, and press Enter. And then you will find the Office document is opened successfully.

   

Which recovery type to select?

Normal Recovery: This attack will try all possible characters combinations in the specified range have selected. If the password is short, it will be recovered in a while.

Mask Recovery: If still remember some part of the password, you can specify it with the mask symbol to shorten the password recovery time. Then it will be faster than the Normal recovery type.

Dictionary Recovery: The program will try all the passwords strings in the built-in or self-created dictionary. If the protected password is in the self-created password dictionary, to recover the password is very fast.

Smart Recovery: It will try all possible characters combinations in all printable characters. If you don't remember any thing about the password, choose this one is ok.

How to configure the recovery parameters?

If select Normal Recovery type: Click on Range to select the password range. And then click on Length to set the Minimal and Maximal password length.

If select the Mask Recovery type: First select the Normal Recovery type to set the password Range and Length, and then set the Start from, End at option. Next select Mask Recovery type, click on Range to set the Mask option. For example, if your password is "coco123", and you still remember the begin part is "coco", then you can set the Start from box to "coco". Specify the unknown characters with "?" symbol, so set the Mask box to "coco???"

For more detail about Mask attack, see Mask Attack – a few minutes to recover a forgotten password.

If select Dictionary Recovery type: Click on Dictionary, and click on Select Dictionary to choose the password dictionary you created. If use the built-in dictionary, you don't need to do any thing, just click on Start button to begin the recovery process.

For more detail to self-created a dictionary to recover password, see How to create a powerful dictionary to recover forgotten password.

If select Smart Recover type: You don't need to configure the parameters, just click on the Start button to begin.