Advanced Office
Password Recovery

Recover, remove, or circumvent passwords protecting documents created with various office suites. Break passwords to Microsoft Office documents and files in WordPerfect, Lotus, OpenOffice, Apple iWork, and Hangul Office formats.
- Break passwords to all relevant office documents.
- The fastest office recovery tool on the market, thanks to low-level optimisation and GPU acceleration
- Exploits all known backdoors and tricks in the Office family for instant recovery.
- Multiple video cards get the job done up to 200 times faster than the CPU alone.
- Combine brute force, dictionary, and advanced attacks into a straightforward workflow.
- Guaranteed recovery of legacy Word and Excel documents protected with 40-bit encryption.
Supports: all versions of Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, WordPerfect Office, Lotus SmartSuite, Hangul Office, Apple iWork, GPU acceleration with AMD and NVIDIA video cards, heterogeneous computing
Description
Gain Access to Password-Protected Documents
Advanced Office Password Recovery unlocks documents created with all versions of Microsoft Office from Office 2.0 to the latest builds of Office 365 and supports documents in WordPerfect Office, Lotus SmartSuite, OpenDocument, and Hangul Office formats. The tool can recover passwords for Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Project, Money, PowerPoint, Visio, Publisher, and OneNote.
Special attention is paid to Microsoft Word .doc and Microsoft Excel .xls documents. For such files, the recovery is often possible within a guaranteed timeframe. The Professional edition has a set of patented Thunder Tables, which allows for decrypting legacy .doc and .xls files by targeting the encryption key instead of the original password.
Faster Attacks with GPU Acceleration
Microsoft consistently hardens protection in every major Office release. The computation-intensive encryption employed in the latest versions of Microsoft Office makes password recovery tools that rely solely on a computer’s CPU no longer fit the job.
Advanced Office Password Recovery supports multiple video cards and simultaneous operation of multiple CPU and GPU cores. All or some CPU/GPU cores can be designated for the password recovery task, enabling maximum performance or allowing for nonintrusive background processing. [ElcomSoft GPU acceleration technology] [gpu] supports an unlimited number of AMD or NVIDIA boards, including the latest generation of high-performance accelerators.
Note for Hangul Office users: GPU acceleration is available for the Hangul Office spreadsheet application (Hancell) and is not available for its text processing application (Hanword).
Instant Access to Password-Protected Documents
Not all passwords are equally strong. Advanced Office Password Recovery provides instant access to many types of password-protected documents, including those created in Microsoft Word and Excel versions 97 and 2000. Later versions of Microsoft Word and Excel save documents and spreadsheets in compatibility mode by default, making them available for instant password recovery.
By carefully analysing the algorithms and implementations of password protection in different versions of Microsoft Office applications, ElcomSoft developed work-around solutions that instantly recover certain kinds of passwords instead of performing lengthy attacks. Advanced Office Password Recovery is aware of the various methods of password protection and implements all the tricks that allow you to recover protected documents in seconds.
Unlocks Legacy Office Documents
Many Microsoft Office documents are still saved in the legacy format for compatibility and interoperability reasons. The legacy format (which can be identified by the .doc/.xls extension as opposed to the modern .docx/.xlsx format) employs weak 40-bit encryption that predates the much stronger AES. Advanced Office Password Recovery has a unique trick for such documents, allowing them to break encryption by targeting the encryption key instead of the password.
In addition to the Microsoft Office family, Advanced Office Password Recovery can instantly unlock many WordPerfect Office documents and all files produced by Lotus SmartSuite.
Compatibility Chart
Trial | Home | Forensic | |
GPU acceleration | |||
Number of CPUs supported | ALL | ALL | ALL |
Number of GPUs supported | ALL | ALL | ALL |
Microsoft Office 365/Microsoft 365 | |||
Password to Open | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Password to Modify | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Document Protection Password | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Microsoft Word (versions: from 2.0 to 2019) | |||
Password to Open | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Password to Modify | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Document Protection Password | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
VBA Project Password | – | – | ✓ |
Microsoft Excel (versions: from 3.0 to 2019) | |||
Password to Open | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Password to Modify | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Workbook Password | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Shared Workbook Password | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Sheet Passwords | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
VBA Project Password | – | – | ✓ |
Unlocking XLA Add-In | – | – | ✓ |
Microsoft Access (versions: from 2.0 to 2019) | |||
Password to Open | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
User and Group Level Passwords | – | – | ✓ |
Database Owner and Security ID | – | – | ✓ |
VBA Project Password | – | – | ✓ |
Microsoft Project, Microsoft PowerPoint | |||
Password to Open | – | – | ✓ |
Password to Modify | – | – | ✓ |
VBA Project Password | – | – | ✓ |
Open Document (1.0, 1.1, 1.2) | |||
Word processing – Password to Open | – | – | ✓ |
Spreadsheets – Password to Open | – | – | ✓ |
Presentations – Password to Open | – | – | ✓ |
Graphics/drawing – Password to Open | – | – | ✓ |
Formulae – Password to Open | – | – | ✓ |
MyOffice (Russian office suite) | |||
MS Office compatible (DOCX, XLSX) | – | ✓ | ✓ |
OpenDocument compatible (ODT, ODTX) | – | – | ✓ |
Apple iWork (versions 2009 – 2020) | |||
Pages – Password to Open | – | – | ✓ |
Numbers – Password to Open | – | – | ✓ |
Keynote – Password to Open | – | – | ✓ |
Hangul/Hancell Office (versions 2010 – 2020) | |||
Hanword/Word – Password to Open | – | – | ✓ |
Hancell/Cell – Password to Open | – | – | ✓ |
Other applications/passwords | |||
Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Publisher (VBA Project) | – | – | ✓ |
Microsoft OneNote (password to open) | – | – | ✓ |
Microsoft Money 2.0 to 2008 (password to open) | – | – | ✓ |
All Applications with VBA (“Backdoor” feature) | – | – | ✓ |
WordPerfect Office (all versions) | – | – | ✓ |
Lotus SmartSuite | – | – | ✓ |
Microsoft Office documents saved in compatibility mode (.doc, .xls) | |||
Guaranteed decryption of Word and Excel documents with 40-bit encryption | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Guaranteed recovery for 40-bit encryption (Word) using Thunder tables® (takes several minutes) | – | – | ✓ |
Recovery for 40-bit encryption (Excel) using Rainbow tables (takes several minutes; 97% success rate) | – | – | ✓ |
System requirements
Windows
- Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7 (32-bit or 64-bit)
- Windows Server 2022/2019/2016/2012
Trial Limitations
- The maximum length of displayed passwords is limited to 3 characters
- Some Dictionary Attack Options are disabled
- No Log File support
- The VBA Backdoor feature is not available
- VBA Passwords cannot be changed or removed
- Microsoft Excel Add-Ins (XLA) cannot be unlocked
- Microsoft Access Database Owner Information is not shown
- Thunder Tables are not supported
- Attack on 40-bit encryption keys is not supported
Uninstallation procedure: To uninstall the product, follow the standard procedure via Control Panel—Programs and Features or use the Uninstall link from the product’s folder in the Windows Start menu.