Microsoft Office Password Protection is an amazing security feature of Microsoft Office to protect documents with a user provided password. Microsoft Office is the most commonly used platform for all sort of documentation whether it’s a presentation, some user guide, thesis, report, resume or a letter etc. Despite of its so common use, mostly people seem unaware of this ‘Microsoft Office Password Protection’ feature. Password protects your most important and private documents which you don’t want to share with anyone else. Microsoft Office Password Protection also helps you to prevent unauthorized access to your most personal documents. This guide is for Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Edition and you are required to do the same in other versions of Microsoft Office with some minor changes.
How To Use Microsoft Office Password Protection?
- First of all Click on “File” tab in the upper left corner. For older versions like Microsoft Office 2007, you can find Microsoft Logo in the upper left corner.
- Go to ‘Info‘ and Click on ‘Protect Document >> Encrypt with Password‘. In older versions after clicking on the Microsoft logo, Go to Prepare >> Encrypt Document.
- Enter Password in the box and click Ok.
- Re-Enter your password to confirm it
- Now every time you will open the document a pop out box will appear. It will ask you to enter the password to access the document.
REMEMBER, Before protecting your files with a password, you should be aware of the following two things in order to avoid any mishap;
- To remove password protection you will have to do the same procedure as mentioned above. Just go to Info > Protect Document > Encrypt Document and erase your password.
- But if you forget your password, you can’t recover it except by means of some third party recovery tools. So, it is recommended to keep a backup of the passwords by saving them in writing.
