{"id":2674,"date":"2008-12-16T18:00:19","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2009-08-21T06:15:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T06:15:54","slug":"password-microsoft-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/password-microsoft-office\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Set Password to Microsoft Office Files"},"content":{"rendered":"

In order to make sure your important office files are not easily accessed by others, you can add a password to these files using the following process. Iam a user of Microsoft Office 2007, hence this post would be for the users of this version.<\/p>\n

Preparing your File for Password Protection<\/strong>
\n1. Encrypting your file – In order to encrypt your file you need to click on the ‘Microsoft Office Button’ located on the top left of your MS Excel, and select the prepare option to ‘Encrypt Document’. <\/p>\n

\"Encrypt<\/p>\n

2. Once you click on this you will be asked to Enter your password for this file twice for confirmation. Make sure you enter a secured password[password strength<\/a>] upto 255 characters long.<\/p>\n

\"Encrypt<\/p>\n

3. Next time when you try to access this file you will be asked to enter the password, only after which you can view the contents, modify the content.<\/p>\n

\"Access<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In order to make sure your important office files are not easily accessed by others, you can add a password to these files using the following process. Iam a user of Microsoft Office 2007, hence this post would be for the users of this version. Preparing your File for Password Protection 1. Encrypting your file […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[223],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-microsoft","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Encrypt-MS-Office-File.jpg?fit=426%2C473&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2677,"url":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/remove-password-microsoft-office\/","url_meta":{"origin":2674,"position":0},"title":"How to Remove Password from Microsoft Office Files","author":"Amit Bhawani","date":"December 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"You have already learnt how to set passwords in microsoft office files but what about the case if you want to remove the current password and offer the file to everyone's access. There are several paid softwares available online which can help you in removing the passwords but if you\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Microsoft Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Microsoft Blog","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/category\/microsoft\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Remove-password-file.jpg?fit=506%2C337&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1433,"url":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/notepad-files-security-software\/","url_meta":{"origin":2674,"position":1},"title":"Free Notepad Files Security Application","author":"Amit Bhawani","date":"September 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Dont you think your Notepad files are not secured because you dont have any password facility and the files can be accessed by anyone? Its time you can make a simple text file secured with all your confidential data within it encrypted and a software which does this possible would\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Tips & Tweaks"","block_context":{"text":"Tips & Tweaks","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/category\/tips-tweaks\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Notepad-Security-Files.png?fit=460%2C376&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4347,"url":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/password-excel-xls-files\/","url_meta":{"origin":2674,"position":2},"title":"How to Add Passwords for Excel XLS Files Security","author":"Amit Bhawani","date":"May 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"If you have a very important Excel file which you are going to store on your computer or planning to send it to someone through email, with a fear of the data or information getting leaked, its better to go for Password Security of this file. There are Inbuilt options\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "How to Guide"","block_context":{"text":"How to Guide","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/category\/how-to\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":490,"url":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/how-to-create-a-password-protected-ms-word-document\/","url_meta":{"origin":2674,"position":3},"title":"How to Create a password protected MS word Document","author":"Amit Bhawani","date":"May 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Many times we need our documents to be protected. It is mainly because of the security reason for which we need to install some added security features to our documents. Microsoft allows us to protect our MS Word file by using few simple security features. With the help of this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "How to Guide"","block_context":{"text":"How to Guide","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/category\/how-to\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Microsoft-Office-Word-2007.jpg?fit=463%2C479&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3022,"url":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/protect-usb-drive-passwords\/","url_meta":{"origin":2674,"position":4},"title":"Protect Data in USB Flash Drive with Passwords","author":"Amit Bhawani","date":"January 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I have a small USB drive which has very important documents along with my personal photos which i dont want anyone else to access it. Is it possible to hide these files on my USB along with a password protection feature? Generally if you are using a PC\/Laptop you can\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Tips & Tweaks"","block_context":{"text":"Tips & Tweaks","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/category\/tips-tweaks\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Folder-Lock-Password-Security.jpg?fit=454%2C376&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6782,"url":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/secured-encrypted-free-ftp-program\/","url_meta":{"origin":2674,"position":5},"title":"Secure Encrypted Free FTP Program","author":"Amit Bhawani","date":"November 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"A website owner is regularly going to upload and download stuff to and fro on his website's hosting account, which is when he has got a total of 2 options for managing the files. First one is accessing the files through his Hosting Cpanel Account via File Manager where he\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Software Reviews"","block_context":{"text":"Software Reviews","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/category\/software\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"WinSCP FTP","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/WinSCP-FTP.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}