/
How to Encrypt Office Documents
How to Encrypt Office Documents
- Mark Mackey
- torresd
- Daniel LaGrow
Owned by Mark Mackey
To Encrypt Documents in Microsoft Office 2013 and 2016
Step-by-step guide
- Open the document (Word, Excel, or Power Point) you would like to encrypt.
- At the top of the document click File.
- On the left-hand navigation bar click Info.
- Click on the button: Protect Document.
- Choose Encrypt with Password.
- Set a password to use when opening the document.
Caution if you lose or forget the password, it cannot be recovered. You must also share the password with anyone you would like to be able to open the document.
Related articles
Filter by label
There are no items with the selected labels at this time.
Related content
Windows 10 Transition Resources
Windows 10 Transition Resources
Read with this
How to Password Protect and Encrypt Word files in Microsoft Office 365
How to Password Protect and Encrypt Word files in Microsoft Office 365
More like this
Student Computer Purchasing Program
Student Computer Purchasing Program
Read with this
How to Password Protect and Encrypt Excel files in Microsoft Office 365
How to Password Protect and Encrypt Excel files in Microsoft Office 365
More like this
Password Protecting and Encrypting Adobe PDF files
Password Protecting and Encrypting Adobe PDF files
More like this
How do I use Google Drive?
How do I use Google Drive?
More like this