Protecting your document with a password

You can protect your document by applying a password so that an unauthorized person can not display or modify your document. You can apply two types of passwords:

A password to open the document: 

Use this one to keep someone from even opening a document.

Password to modify the document: 

Use this one to keep someone from modifying  a document. Your document then becomes read-only.

To apply a password to a document:

* Open Save As dialog box by selecting "Save As" command from the Office Button (on the far left).

* Click the "Tools" button of the Save As dialog box and choose "General Options" from the drop down menu.  The "Save" dialog box appears.

* Enter the first password in the "Password to open" text box and the second password in the "Password to modify" text box (if required) and click the "Ok" button of the dialog box. Microsoft Word will open the "Confirm Password" dialog box for the confirmation of passwords.

* Re-enter the password to open and password to modify and click the "Ok" buttons of the Confirm Password dialog boxes one by one.