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June 20, 2008

Amazon.com Tools: Price Watcher 2

I previously posted about, RefundPlease, a utility that monitors for price drops during the 30 days following a purchase from Amazon.com. Amazon will refund the difference in accordance with their Post-Order Price Guarantee Policy, but only if you "catch" them and call them on it.

Another utility that does this is Amazon Price Watch.

June 2, 2008

Unprotect a Microsoft Word Document

To remove the password preventing you from unlocking a protected MS-Word file, follow the steps below (adapted from Dave Taylor)

First, open the document and do a "Save As..." specifying Rich Text Format (RTF). It'll end up being called something.rtf.

Press [Alt]+[Shift]+[F11] to open Microsoft's Script-Editor.

Search for "Password" and you will find something like this:
<w:UnprotectPassword>8431AFZ3</w:UnprotectPassword>

To remove the protection, just delete that line, then save.

Finally, do another "Save As..." specifying "Word Document (*.doc)."