So yesterday I created three files that I password protected in Word 07. They were saved as docx files. The password for all three was the same.

Today none of them will open. mad mad Yesterday, the fourth wouldn't open but I'd barely started it so recreated it and replaced [and it did replace without requiring a password] so the new one is one of the three...

I would have had to transpose the same letter at least twice or something.

Does anyone have any thoughts? Any way around it? IIRC older versions of word had the 'preview' option when you were opening a file in Word and you could copy/paste from there, but that's not an option in 07.

One I'm not too terribly worried about. Another I still had open and resaved it as a non protected file so I have it, but the third... was about 10 pages of hard work mecry mecry