Vista - Office document protection

I've seen a number of samples to open an Office document (ie. word,
excel, etc.) that is password protected using VBScript. My problem is
a bit different. I'm performing a recursive search on a directory and
its subdirectories for word documents, and then extract information
from those documents. However, some of the word documents, not all,
are password protected. Also, not all of the passwords are the same.
I was thinking that when trying to open the documents to get the
information, I could put the passwords in an array and then loop
through the array until the correct password is entered. However, I
didn't want to have to do this on each and every word document, only
the one's that are password protected.

Is there a way, using vbscript, to determine whether or not a word
document is password protected? I'm sure there's some tag in the file
that says "yes, you need a password to open", but I'm not intelligent
enough to figure it out on my own.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Chris

"chris" <christopher.d.biggs@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:11d932bf-ff65-4d13-ae14-a4821708c0aa@xxxxxxI don't know, however, if your code attempts to open a passworded document
without supplying the correct password, is it able to detect the failure to
open? If so, just set your script to open every document without a password,
and try the passwords for those documents that fail.

/Al

Al,

Thanks for the help. Hopefully one day I'll figure out if there's a way to
check prior to opening a docoment for a password. In the meantime, though, I
just open each document with a fake password, and then check the error
code...if there is one, I skip it. It's a workaround, but it will work for
now.

Chris

"Al Dunbar" wrote:

"cdbiggs" <cdbiggs@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:EBF53BE5-4C36-4587-851C-0F1C999FCD9A@xxxxxxYou're welcome, but you don't seem to have understood my suggestion:

try to open document WITHOUT giving a password
if open fails then
for each possible password
try to open document WITH given password
if open succeeds then exit if-block
next
flag error: no password works on this one...
end if

/Al

Al,

Again, thank you. I'll try you code out, however, I forgot to mention that
the scope of the job had changed. It seems the management doesn't want the
password protected documents to be accessed, so I'm having to skip them.
That's the purpose of the 'dummy' password. If I were to come upon a
password protected document, using the dummy pword, I'll get an error. I
just check for the error code, skip the document, and then go to the next.

Again, thanks for the suggestion. I'll keep this in mind, because we all
know that management has a bad habit of changing.

Chris

"Al Dunbar" wrote: