A recommended approach to secure your most private documents — whether it’s a PDF, Word file, or Excel spreadsheet — is to lock them with a passcode. While this does help keep sensitive ...

Attempt to open the protected file and a window pops up requesting the password to open the document. Enter the password and click "OK" to open the file, if you typed the correct password. Click ...

I wanted to alert everyone of a new malware distributing SPAM that I just received that contains a password protected Word document, which pretends to be about a payment I would be receiving ...

Open the desired Word document you would like to password protect and click on the ‘File’ option. Towards the right-hand side you will observe a ‘Protect Document’ option.

In Office, you can password protect Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. Just encrypt the file with a password, and nobody will be able to open it unless they know the password.