I tried several password recovery programs and this free one worked fine. I used the brute force
method and it took about 8 hours to work out the forgotten MS Word password. I set it to look for
0-9, a-z, A-Z and special characters. In the past I've used a commercial program to recover a
password for Excel. I paid about $15. and got an instant result, but this program would have worked
out the password if I'd known about it and if I'd been prepared to wait a day or 2. If you know
that the password is long, and/or you need it in a hurry, it may be worthwhile using a commercial
program that will give an instantaneous result.
