Sometimes, we work with documents with very critical information that everyone should not see, and the best way to do that is to password-protect those documents.
Putting a password on your word document is a very secure way of denying access to people who you do not want to come into contact with the information you have in that particular word document.
There are several available ways to set a password on a word document, and here are some of them.
Option 1
Open the word document you want to protect
Click on File on the menu bar.
Scroll down and click on Info.
Click on ” Protect Document”
Scroll down to the ” Encrypt with password” option
Type in your desired password
Click OK.
Option 2
Open the word document you want to protect
Click on File on the menu bar.
Click on Save As.
Tab on the ” Browse” Option
There is a “Tool” drop-down near the Save Button. Click on it.
Go to General Options
Choose a password and click OK.
With this option, you can not only password-protect a document when you want to open it but also when you want to share or modify it.
Note: When you create a password on a word document, do well to note that if you forget the password, there is no way you can recover it.
If you want to remove password protection from a document, here is a tip to help you with that:
Open the protected document
Type in your password to gain access to it.
Click on File on the menu bar
Scroll down to Info and click on it
Click on protect document ( it will be slightly highlighted)
Tab on the ” Encrypt with password option.”
Highlight the previous password and click on delete
Then you click on Ok, and the password will be removed.
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