How to recover a password protected Microsoft Word file if you forget the password

Steps

1. Right-click on the file you have forgot the password to.

2. Click 'Rename'

3. Rename the file to whatever.rtf

4. The file should now have a new name and a new type. It is now a Rich Text File instead of a Word file.

5. Right-click on whatever.rtf and hover the mouse over "Open With".

6. Pick WordPad. The file should now open up for you in WordPad. You won't have all of the styling you had before, but now you can copy and paste the text into a new Word document and re-style it however you want.
The main thing with this hack is to make sure you rename the file with the .rtf file extension.