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I need to break the password of a Word document that I protected a few years ago because I forgot th
A few years ago I was "writing" a book with anything that came into my head, and since I was still learning to use some of the different functions of word, I decided to protect the document, and now ...
That's a shame, unfortunately, there isn't an official way around this, if there was it would make password protection rather moot:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/290948/you-cannot-recover-a-document-that-is-protected-with-a-password-if-the
Also, just to mention passwords are case sensitive, so whether you have tried different combinations taking that into account. Password protection in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_password_protection is considered secure.
Like Pieter Veenstra has said there are utilities out there that may assist with password recovery.