Saturday, November 8, 2008

Create Password Protected Word Files

Step 1
Go to Tools Menu --> And click an item called Options.

A window will open up with lots of tabs from which you need to click on the Security tab and you'll see this:


Notice that you can also set an "edit" password if you're okay with people having the document but want to prevent them from editing the contents. That's not quite what you want, so it's the "Password to open" that you need to fill in.

I also encourage you to click on the "Remove personal information from file properties on save" too, to give you a bit more privacy if the file might make its way out onto the Internet or otherwise leave your own machine.

Click "OK" and it'll ask you to confirm the new password

Don't forget this password lest you end up losing the contents of the file entirely.

Now, save the file as usual and when you try to open it, instead of the contents popping up as usual, it will ask you for a password to open.

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