Today I will let you know how to create your own password for opening or modifying an
MS Word document.
MS Word document.
Please follow the below mentioned steps :
Step 1 - Click on Windows icon on bottom left hand side of your screen. Type “winword” (shortcut for opening MSWord document) and hit Enter Key on Keyboard.
Step 2 - A new instance of MSWord document would be opened and a blank document would be displayed.
Now, on top right hand side of the blank document, click on “Save” icon.
Step 3 - “Save As” window would get opened. Enter the File name as you wish. Notice at bottom center of the window, there is a Tools option. Click on it and select “General Options...”.
Step 4 - A new window, called “General Options” would get displayed.
We have 2 options here : Password to open and Password to modify.
Whatever values or characters you put in Password to open field, Windows would prompt you to enter the same when you open the Word document next time.
Whatever values or characters you put in Password to modify field, Windows would prompt you to enter the same when you try to modify/edit the Word document next time.
Let me give a random value for both and click OK.
Step 5 - Another window, Confirm Password, would be displayed which would prompt us to confirm our password to open and password to modify again. Enter the same values which you had entered earlier (in Step 4 above) and click OK.
Step 5 - Close the Word document. Go back to the file location where our document was saved and open it. We would be prompted to enter a password to open. Enter the correct password to open. Now, it asks for password to modify. Enter the correct password to modify.
And there you go – friends !! Our password protected document is in front of us, accessible only to us !!
