Tuesday, 11 September 2007
How to encrypt & password protect Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint documents in Office 2007
If is often necessary to password protect or encrypt Microsoft Word and Excel documents. There are obviously various reason for doing this, but most commonly, it is due to privacy and security when sending attachments via email, for example!
So how exactly do you encrypted or password protect a Microsoft office document? Well, follow the following steps and learn how:
- Click the Office button [See pic below]
- Click Prepare -> Encrypt Document
- A dialog box will appear prompting you to enter a password. NOTE: The password is case sensitive
- Type a password of your choice two-times and click OK
The document is now encrypted and will require the password to view the contents of the document. This can be used of for Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
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