Enlightening Procedure to Protect the MS-Office Document

These days technology is growing with lightening speed and along with that users having many good and bad experiences which they are facing. As vast amount of data is now easily available and there is high risk also of leaking confidential data. Any un-authorized person can easily avail your data if it is not protected. Hence, it is now become important to protect your data which is saved in MS-Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.

Well I know there are many users who are not aware about how they can protect MS office document by applying password. And some people found it very difficult exercise to use passwords.

See if you are working on Microsoft Office 2003 or 2007, then you may simply apply the password by following easy steps:

To protect MS office document (.doc, .xls, .ppt) by applying password protection.

1. Open the document (.doc, .xls, .ppt) to apply the password.

2. Select the Tools button, then Click on Options.

3. Then, select the Security tab and then choose advanced button.

4. Then two boxes are available in the Options window: Password to Open and Password to Modify. Then type the password in the Password to Open box and then click OK. Similarly, type the password in the Password to modify box also.

6. You need to Re-enter the Password to Open and click OK.

7. Click File tab and then click Save As or click Save, if you have saved the document.

8. And type the file name in Filename option and click Save.

When you have applied the password to MS office document then you might be feeling of security because unauthorized user cannot access your document without your permission. It is important to keep strong password which you can easily recall.

Whenever you forget the password use Stellar Phoenix Office Password Recovery utility to recover the MS-Office password as it is user friendly and helps in recovering the password.

To know more about MS-Office password recovery tool visit this article.