Comments on: Word 2007: Password Protect Your Document File

By: Trollslayer

Trollslayer — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:15:29 +0000

That was easy to follow but the original way DID NOT work for me. I entered a password to both open and to modify, clicked OK but didn’t get an option to confirm my passwords. The doc saved but it was NOT password protected at all. Clicking the saved doc opens it for all to see.

The encryption method worked first time so thanks for that.

By: james

james — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:27:51 +0000

this didnt work for me im trying to write a book and im upset it doesnt work

By: shab

shab — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:09:32 +0000

fnx for de help, you’ve saved me from failing my It project

By: tc

tc — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:24:39 +0000

hey , i cud find the ‘tools’ tab that the author mentioned , its on the window that opens when im saving the doc . srry fr the last post . kinda embarrased now

By: tc

tc — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:15:51 +0000

I dont quite follow the authors instructions , i dont even see a ‘tools’ tab on word 2007 .
Try ‘Review’->’Protect Document’-> ‘Restricted access’ . that shud work

By: Double D

Double D — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:04:07 +0000

Neither assigning a Password to Open nor choosing Prepare > Encrypt and assigning a password is prompting for a password when re-opening the Word 2007 document …. even if I exit Word 2007 completely.

Is my install corrupt? It’s a WinXP SP3 machine that was upgraded from XP SP2 at some point after Office 2007 was installed from scratch (Office 2007 was not an upgrade).

By: TBolt

TBolt — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:35:57 +0000

Thank you! Password-protecting a document should have been a lot easier in Word 2007. A button on the toolbar would have been nice. Thank you for your instructions!

By: yasir

yasir — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:30:11 +0000

friends !

both the author and ‘bad info” are correct.
we can lock our document in both ways.

1). go for save as
2).go to prepare

however in my opinion the method of author is more safe as the user had to enter the correct password two times.

By: LaRon

LaRon — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:10:22 +0000

Yes, the author is correct and these ARE for Word 2007. It isn’t until you actually go to save as that you get the “Tools” option that will appear in the bottom left hand corner of the save dialouge box. Click that and then you seen general options.

By: rock

rock — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:17:03 +0000

the original post does nt wrk…bt d post in comment works…..thanks a lot