How to Password Protect an MS-Word Document

Everyone has his/her own personal documents. While working in office sometimes we do our personal things, which we don’t get time to work on home. And those documents need to keep safe from unauthorized access especially when you are working on shared system.

For this purpose Microsoft has provided a feature called Protect document. To protect the document you need to do following:

1.    Click the File tab.

2. Click Info from left panel and click Protect Document.

3.  From various options click Encrypt with password.

4.  A popup window confirm password will appear. In the box enter your password and click Ok.

5.  After entering the password, it will ask for Reenter Password. Renter password and click ok.

Your document is password protected now. No one can open your document without password.

Points to remember:

1.    Passwords are case sensitive.

2.    There is no option for recovery of password. If you lose/forgot password. You are not able to access the file.

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