Word documents wont recognise my encrypted password, Why?

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brit3_paulr - 03 Mar 2008 13:36 GMT

I encrypted some Word documents with a password, after transferring my files
to a vista enabled computer Word no longer recognises the password I set up.
Why?

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Terry Farrell - 03 Mar 2008 16:15 GMT

Are you using the same version of Office?

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>I encrypted some Word documents with a password, after transferring my
>files
> to a vista enabled computer Word no longer recognises the password I set
> up.
> Why?

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Tony Jollans - 03 Mar 2008 19:16 GMT

Did you encrypt them using Word, or via Windows?

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Tony

>I encrypted some Word documents with a password, after transferring my
>files
> to a vista enabled computer Word no longer recognises the password I set
> up.
> Why?

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