Protect the MS Document

Keywords: Password Protection, Setting Password to MS Word, Modification Protection on MS Word.

Applies To: Excel 2007 Word 2007 PowerPoint 2007 Access 2007 Publisher 2007 Visio 2007 OneNote 2007 Office 2007 Office 2010 Visio Standard 2007

MS has provided password protection facility to its user to protect your file against editing, changing and modificating the text or any thing else. with this facility now writer use it to protect their file and they send it free from any tension.

You can protect a document by using a password.

First of all, click the File tab.

Click Info option.


Click Protect Document icon box,

Click Encrypt with Password.

 In password box, type your password.

Click OK.

 In the Confirm Password box, type the password again.

Click OK.

NOTE: 

Please remember that here Password is case-sensitive. You should make sure the status of CAPS LOCK key when you enter a password for the first time. In case of forgetting password, you will not be able to access your data.

Now whenever anyone want to open your password protected file, it will ask password first to enter the document, See below

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