Breaking a password to open a word document

[Andy.]

This is an ethical request - my boss passed away at the weekend and he kept all his passwords in a word document. It is password protected to open it and I need to get access to various systems and files with his credentials.

Google brings up a million and one programs that say that they can do it, but does anybody here actually have experience of one that worked?

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Sym0n]

I used the one from HERE months ago and it worked perfectly, was a Word 2003 doc.

 

[KDF]

if it's 2003 or older it should take seconds to crack with any of the programs available. If it's 2007 or newer then it will probably be a brute force/dictionary attack you need... which can take some time depending on the complexity of the password.

 

[Andy.]

Its a 97-2003 document. It looks like he might of used another tool to store his passwords in that we can access through the database so I might not need it now.

Thanks for the input.