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 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
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 (Access 95 is also
supported).

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

The passwords for Word/Excel files created in French version of
Microsoft Office (actually, in any version, but with French regional
settings) and Access 95/97 databases can be recovered 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.

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 (commercial 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; Windows NT users) are available at:

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