How To Put Password in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007

Create password on your important files in Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Password protection is useful to prevent alteration and editing of the original data on certain files.

In this case, we need a little bit of security when it comes to confidential files you want to share via web or other users. To avoid unwanted access or altering the details of your documents, MS Word gives us the option to lock and password-protect our documents. Though there are many ways to secure documents, in this post, we will use the pre-defined features of MS Office Word 2007 to protect our created file. Steps are provided with screenshots for you to follow step-by-step.

How to password protect your MS Office 2007 documents

1. Click on the MS Office Button located on the top left corner of the window.
2. Click Save As to save your document.

3. After clicking Save As, a new pop-up window will appear.
4. From there, you can see Tools options.
5. Select General Options.
6. After doing Step 5, another pop-up window will appear.

7. There you go, just type your desired password to encrypt your documents. You can also set a password to modify for file sharing options.
8. Click OK once your done!

P.S. Password protect MS Excel and PowerPoint 2007 file, just follow steps above. Enjoy