How To Password Protect A Word Document

Need to know how to password protect a Word document? Microsoft word program has a nifty built in feature that allows you to protect your work by creating a password for each document. Password protecting a word document is the safest way to assure that your documents will not be tampered with or changed in any way. This would make the word document unable to be opened by anyone other than you or those you share the password with.

Use the following steps to easily create a password to protect a word document.

1. Open the Word document
2. Go to ‘File’ and click ‘Save As’
3. On the top right menu box of ‘Save As’, click on ‘Tools’ then click ‘General Options’
4. In the ‘General Options’ box type in a password, in second box retype the password then click ‘OK’
5. Click ‘Save’

You may also protect the data in a word document with a password protection. When creating a word document you may want to create a form type that would require certain areas to be filled out with each person’s specific information. Data in a form mode it is easy for people to erase or mess up the form if the data is not locked.

Use the following steps to password protect data in a Word document

1. Open the Word document
2. Go to ‘File’ and click ‘Save As’
3. On the top right menu box of ‘Save As’, click on ‘Tools’ then click ‘General Options’
4. In the ‘General Options’ box select ‘Save data only for forms’
5. In the ‘General Options’ box type in password, in second box retype the password then click ‘OK’
6. Click ‘Save’ 
   

Remember to write down your passwords for future reference. If you lose your passwords you will be unable to open your documents.