Encrypt Document | Password Protect your Office 2007 Documents

Encrypt Document …Password Protect your Documents?

Why you need to encrypt document?

There are obviously various reason for doing this, but most commonly, it is due to privacy and security reason. For example, your computer is sharing in a network or when sending documents via email attachments. It is often necessary to password protect or encrypt your Microsoft Office documents.

So how exactly do you encrypted or password protect a Microsoft office document? Well, follow the following steps and learn how:

To encrypt a document

Open the Office 2007 document that you wish to encrypt.

Click the Office button, point to Prepare and click on the Encrypt Document option.

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The Encrypt Document dialog box will appear prompting you to enter a password. Note: The password is case sensitive.

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Type the password of your choice and click OK. This will prompt you another Confirm Password dialog box.

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Type the same password again and click OK.

The document is now encrypted and will require the password to view the contents of the document.

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