{"id":1662,"date":"2022-01-03T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.securedyou.com\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2022-01-03T16:33:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T16:33:28","slug":"how-to-password-protect-word-documents-pdf-with-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.securedyou.com\/how-to-password-protect-word-documents-pdf-with-office\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Password Protect Word Document or PDF with MS Office 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
As we all know that the Microsoft Office is a family of client software and services developed by Microsoft. It was the software which was first introduced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. This software is used to create and modify any type of Document files. The new version of the Microsoft has many new features which also consist of a Protect Document feature<\/strong>. Today we will show you how to password protect word documents and PDF files easily<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This Protect Document Feature is used to encrypt your Office Documents and PDF Files, which does not let anyone to even view the file unless they are given the password. This New modern version of Office uses total secure encryption on which you can rely on putting a strong password on your document.<\/p>\n Note: The instructions or method explained below can be applied to Microsoft Office, Powerpoint and Excel 2016. The process should be followed and is similar for the other versions of Office.<\/strong><\/p>\n Read:<\/strong> How to Send Encrypted and Secure Emails (Email Privacy Guide)<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the oldest version of Microsoft Office, the password-protection feature had a very bad reputation. The Microsoft Office 95 to Office 2003 had a very weak encryption scheme. If you ever used this feature in the older version of the Microsoft Office then you would know that the password can be quickly and easily bypassed with the use of cracking software available on the internet.<\/p>\n The Microsoft got a lot of messages as reviews from their customers and after reading them Office started working on the whole new version of Microsoft Office. On Office 2007 Microsoft got serious security because of the previous response from there users. Then Office 2007 switched their encryption to Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with a 128-bit key.<\/p>\n This is considered secured and it means that the office used real and strong encryption to protect their user’s document when they set a password for their document. We have also tested the PDF encryption and we found that this feature uses 128-bit AES on Office 2016.<\/p>\n But you have to watch out for two big things. First of all, that full encryption of a document with the help of the password is the only secure method. Secondly, Office allows you to set a password with another feature which is the “Restrict Editing” of a file. This feature allows the other people to watch the file but they cannot edit it without any password. This type of password can also be easily cracked and removed, which will allow other people to edit the whole file.<\/p>\n Microsoft Office\u2019s encryption works very well and if you are using the new modern document format represented by Microsoft Office named .docx then it is a very good data encryption format. But if you use the older formats named .doc to save your document file which was compatible with the older version of Microsoft Office. Then it will use the older version with the not-secure version feature of file encryption.<\/p>\n Your document is fully secured if you are saving your document file with the feature \u201cEncrypt with Password\u201d instead of using the \u201cRestrict Editing\u201d feature, your documents cannot be secured with this feature.<\/p>\n We can password protect our office document very easily with the help of the new and updated feature which was developed by Microsoft in its newer version of Office. Now we are going to learn how to password protect an Office Document in steps:<\/p>\n Note: If you want to use the restrict editing feature of the document, you can choose it by clicking on \u201cRestrict Editing\u201d, but as we told you before this is not very secure and it can easily be cracked.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Warning: You will lose access to the whole document if you forgot your password, so you have to keep it safe! Microsoft Office advises you to write the name of the document and its password and keep it in a safe place where you can easily find it.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Also read:<\/strong> How to encrypt files and data using AxCrypt<\/a>.<\/p>\n We can password protect our PDF document very easily with the help of the new and updated feature which was developed by Microsoft in its newer version of Office. Now we are going to discuss how to encrypt the PDF document with password protection. We can simply export the Office document to a PDF file and after that, we can password-protect that PDF file. This method works for all of the applications available in Microsoft Office.<\/p>\n You have to follow the following steps to make PDF file password encrypted:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This feature can help you protect all of your sensitive documents, even if you store them in the Universal Serial Bus (USB) drive or in any online storage service like the Microsoft OneDrive or Google drive.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Full-disk Encryption is more secure and very protective of the documents on your computer. For this encryption, there are several applications that you can install in your PC for free and use to secure your data. This software is Device Encryption and BitLocker on windows for Personal Computer or FileVault on Macintosh (Mac).<\/p>\n Recommended reads<\/strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n This was all the information that I could gather up for you to learn how to secure your document files<\/strong> from other unknown people. As I told you before that you have to remember the password of your document file or else you will no longer have access to your document file. I hope you have now password protected your Word documents and PDF files<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As we all know that the Microsoft Office is a family of client software and services developed by Microsoft. It was the software which was first introduced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. This software is used to create and modify any type of Document files. The new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42,5],"tags":[3470,435,434,437,436],"yoast_head":"\nIs Microsoft Office\u2019s Password Protection Safe?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
How to Password Protect an Office Document (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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How to Create a Password Protected PDF File? (Easy Method)<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Conclusion – Are your Word Documents and PDF Files Password Protected?<\/strong><\/h2>\n