Make your Microsoft Word Document Password Protected and make them safe and secure

Make your Microsoft Word Document Password Protected and make them safe and secure-From the security point of view, it may prove very useful to make all your Microsoft office word documents safe and secure by making them password protected. Microsoft Office word provides easy options to make your documents pass word protected and you need not to have any extra software for it and neither it is a lengthy job. Once you have made a document pass word protected you can remove the pass word as and when you wish. We have a large number of documents on our hard disk and some of these may be extremely important and we don’t want these documents to be seen by any one. If you apply pass word to these documents these will be secure and nobody will be able to view or make any corrections to the documents. To apply a pass word to a document follow these steps -

Make your Microsoft Word Document Password Protected and make them safe and secure

How to Apply a pass word to a Microsoft Office Word document

1. The document you want to apply the pass word must be open. If it is not open, please open it now.

2. After opening the document click the Office Button in the top left corner.

3. Point the cursor on “Prepare”, a list of options will be displayed in the right side.

4. Now click on “Encrypt Document”

5. Now another window will appear asking you to enter your pass word.

6. Please enter your pass word and click ‘OK’.

7. An error in pass word may cause you great trouble and to avoid this trouble it is a general practice that pass words are entered twice to avoid errors hence to avoid this error, another window will appear asking you to re-enter your pass word. Please re-enter your pass word carefully and click ‘OK’.

8. You are done and now your document is pass word protected.

Procedure to open a pass word protected Microsoft Office Word document

Procedure for opening your documents which is pass word protected is very simple. Each time while you open your pass word protected document a window will open prompting pass word. Please enter your pass word and click ‘OK’, your document will open immediately.