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Password protecting a document - Microsoft Word Tutorial
From the course: Word 2013 Essential Training
Password protecting a document
If you're going to be sharing your documents with other people, and you want to ensure that only they get access to the file, you can password protect it. Then you would provide them with the password, they would use it to get in; anyone who doesn't know the password will not have access to your document. Let's see how it's done using our No Obstacles Bio Final2 document. We'll click the File tab, and then go down to Info, if need be, and here you'll see Protect Document. Clicking this displays a number of different ways to protect your document. One of them is to encrypt it with a password. Give it a click, and all we do now is choose a password, type it in, click OK, and because you can't see what you're typing, you want to make sure you got it right the first time. Type it in again. Now when you click OK, you'll notice that the document has been password protected; it's highlighted here in yellow. So we'll save our changes, we'll go back to the File tab, and let's close this up…
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