You can encrypt your Microsoft office document like Word, PowerPoint and Excel using a password thereby allowing no one can view the documents unless they have password. Today in this tutorial, I am going to provide you step by step procedure to encrypt your MS documents. To know more visit - http://www.crackaloud.com/protect-word-document-with-password/

1. How To Protect Word
Document With Password?
You can encrypt your Microsoft office document like Word, PowerPoint
and Excel using a password thereby allowing no one can view the
documents unless they have password.

2. Set a Password In a Word Document
• In Microsoft Office 2003 and earlier versions, password encryption was really very weak
and bypassing the password protection using password cracking software becomes very
easy.
• In Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft introduced AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with
which you can use passwords to help prevent other people from opening or modifying
your documents, workbooks and presentations, but even that wasn’t up to the standard.
• So Microsoft decided to introduce two new things in the version 2010. First, a new
encryption technique and the next thing is setting a password to “Restrict Editing”.
• Follow this Presentation to know How to Protect Word Document with Password.
• Note: Always save and encrypt the word document in .docx format with password. Don’t
save document in older formats like .doc because that’s not secure.

3. Step 1: click the “File”
• Open word document and Click
the "File" in the upper-left
corner of the screen. If the Info
tab doesn’t automatically open,
click the Info tab. Click Info->
protect document-> Encrypt
with password.

4. Step 2: Click Protect Document
• Click Protect Document, a
square button located under the
“ Information about
<document>” section. Click
“Encrypt with Password” in the
menu that appears.
• Choose a complex password
which is easy to remember but
very difficult to guess in order to
protect your document.

5. Step 3: Enter a Password
• Now you can see a dialog box with
“Encrypt the content of this file:
password”.
• In this dialog box, enter your
password and then click “OK”.
• You will be asked to enter the
password again to confirm it. You
will not be able to retrieve this
password if you lost it, so make a
note of it.
• In order for the password to take
effect, you must save your file.

6. Step 4: Opening the Document
• When you open the encrypted
word document, you have to
enter correct password and if
you don’t enter it you can’t view
the document.

7. Step 5: Remove your password
• Remove your password. If you want
to remove your password, open the
document and click the File menu
again. Click Protect Document and
select “Encrypt with Password”. There
will be a password in the box, delete it
and press OK.
• Now you know how to protect word
document with password. You can
follow the same procedure if you
would like to protect workbook and
Microsoft office presentation
software’s with passwords.