Do you have some confidential information in your Microsoft Word 2010 documents that you don’t want anyone other then yourself to open? If your answer is yes, then follow the steps below and password protect your Microsoft Word 2010 document using Microsoft's built-in encryption feature.
Step 1:
Open Microsoft Word 2010 document. Click on
File Tab
Step 2: Click on
Info option.
Step 3: Click on the
Protect Document button under Permissions tab.
Step 4: Select the
Encrypt with Password option.
Step 5: A window will pop up asking you to put in the desired password.
Set a Password for Word document and click “
OK” button.
Step 6: It’ll again ask to “
Re-enter password”, so type it again and click “
OK” button.
After password protecting your document, save the changes by
pressing CTRL+S Buttons from your keyboard or go to File Tab of your document and click Save option.
Your document is now password protected and fully secured. You can see the following message under Permissions “Password is required to open the following Document”.
To Open Password Protected Documents
To open your password protected document simply double click the document and a pop up box will appear and prompt you to enter the password. Simply enter the password that you have set-up for this file and and click “OK”
How to Remove Password from a Word 2010 Document
Step 1: Open Password Protected Microsoft Word 2010 document. Click on
File Tab
Step 2: Click on
Info option.
Step 3:Click on the
Protect Document button under Permissions tab.
Step 4: Select the
Encrypt with Password option.
Step 5: A window will pop up which will contains your file’s password, simply select the password and
delete it and click “
OK” button
Save the changes by pressing CTRL+S Buttons from your keyboard or go to File Tab of your document and click Save option.
Your document is now password free and open for everyone to read and edit. You can see the following message under Permissions “Anyone can open, copy, and change any part of this document”.
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5 comments:
Hate to say this but when it comes to removing a known password, the info here is equally as wrong as is found in other sites. Did you all copy from each other or what? Would it not make more sense to verify the information first? You write, "Step 5: A window will pop up which will contains your file’s password, simply select the password and delete it and click “OK” button." The window that pops up does not contain the password but is actually blank therefore there is nothing to delete. Clicking on it empty does nothing as well, still requiring you to use the password again.
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Michael,
Everything on my blog is written and verified by me. All the screen-shots that you are seeing on this blog is taken by me. Before writing the comment, I believe, you should have check the method which is posted here as it works rather then trying to blame the blogger who is trying to help.
As for your answer,
If you are familiar with MS Office then you should know by now that there is more than one way to password protect your files. If, on step 5, your document doesn't show any password then it is not protected using MS Office.
Try to Google it, son! (I might post about this in future as other methods are very hard to follow for basic users.
works perfectly
thanks
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Sohail,
That was of great help. Thanks for you help and all efforts you are putting to help other people out
AR
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