Protect your Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel document with password. If you are working in office and have important information in your documents then you have to protect them with password. We recommend you to select a strong password for your document. It is not easy to break by some one. Password must have combination of Small and Capital letters and Numerical numbers. For example "MyPassword112*&^". In this example Symbols "*&^" made it more strong and powerfull password.

Protecting a Word or Excel document has same procedure. There are 2 methods to protect your document. First is protect a new document with password and 2nd is protect already saved document with password. I'll explain both methods here. There are 2 types of passwords in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel

• Password to open
• Password to modify

Password to open
This type of password will be asked by Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel when you will open that protected document. No one can see your document contents without knowing this password.

Password to modify
This type of password will be asked by Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel when you will try to modify your document. If will protect contents of your document.

Protecting a new document with password
Open Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel type contents in your new document and save your document. "Save As" dialog box will appear. You will see a drop down box "Tools" at left bottom side.

Click on Tools drop down options and click on "General Options". Saving passwords option will appear. Now you can type passwords for "Password to open" and "Password to modify".

Protecting already saved document with password
If you want to protect already saved document of Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel then open that document and click on "Tools" menu and then "Options".
In this option find "Save" or "Security Options". These will vary according to the version of Microsoft Office and apply passwords option.