Putting passwords on word and excel

[textbook]

Is it difficult to set a word or excel file so that it needs a password to open it? How do you do it?

 

[gamblingman]

excel

Its not too hard to password protect a document. But what version of MS Office Excel & Word are you using? You didn't say.

If you protect it with a password, then both you and the person that is going to read it have to have the password. Unless your just doing it for your own use, say for a financial document. Just dont forget the password! ha ha

 

[textbook]

I think it is Excel and Word 2007, could be 2003 though.

If I can't remember the password, but i delete the whole say Word file i guess the password protection can't stop me deleting the file.

 

[johnb35]

As long as the file is password protected, you won't be able to delete it without the password as well.

 

[OverClocker]

Yeah could some one say how do you do this??

 

[Rit]

Try here....

http://www.uwo.ca/its/doc/hdi/email/word-excel-protect.html

 

[TFT]

I think it is Excel and Word 2007, could be 2003 though.

If I can't remember the password, but i delete the whole say Word file i guess the password protection can't stop me deleting the file.

That's the whole point of protecting a document, you can't open it, modify it, move it or delete it and so on.

With Word/Excel 2007 click the Office button, click prepare, click encrypt document and enter a password.

 

[tremmor]

That's the whole point of protecting a document, you can't open it, modify it, move it or delete it and so on.

With Word/Excel 2007 click the Office button, click prepare, click encrypt document and enter a password.

Encryption does not work well. but close and for most people. i have played lately. and one proggy is right now an BAM. i was testing. requested a player to create the meanest, badest, uppercase, lowercase password with numbers and letters and took about a second. then again Zip and Rar don't make no diff. cant believe some the the software that is out there.