Word password protection and encryption in word 2007
Like in Excel 2007, Microsoft Word 2007 offers password protection and encryption features to password protect and lock word documents.
Earlier we covered a tutorial on how to encrypt and password protect Excel 2007 files. We also discussed how to remove Excel password protection in MS excel 2007.
How to password protect word documents in Word 2007?
- Open the Word 2007 document that you intend to encrypt, password protect and lock
- Click on the office Orb on the top left
- Select Prepare >> Encrypt document
- An Encrypt document dialog box pops up with an option for you to set password
- Enter a strong password and click Ok
- A confirm password dialog box pops up with an option for you to re-enter password and confirm it
- If you are done with your work on the Word 2007 file, save your word document
- Another microsoft word dialog box pops up with the message “This document is both encrypted and password protected. The office Open XML Formats available in the 2007 release provide stronger encryption.Do you want to increase the security of this document by converting to an Office open XML format ?”
- If you want more stronger security, click Yes else click No in the above dialog box
- Close the Word 2007 file
You have password protected and encrypted the Word document!!! When you try opening the encrypted and password protected word 2007 document, you will be asked to enter the password. However,if your forget or loose password it cannot be recovered in a straight forward manner.Special softwares may be required to recover the password.Hence it is advisable to keep a list of passwords and their corresponding document names in a safe place.
Enjoy password protecting and encrypting your Word 2007 documents !!!
