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Add password protection to a file

Add password protection to a file

- [Instructor] When it comes to sharing your documents here in Word for Microsoft 365, more popular than printing these days is to share an electronic copy. You might want to send your Word document via email or perhaps store it up in the cloud and give people access to it. Well, in that case, if the contents of your document are sensitive, you might consider password protecting the document, so that only those who know the password for this document can open it up and view it and make changes to it. That's what we're going to explore in this movie with our Red30 Conference document. Red30Conference09Final. If you're catching up, it's in the Chapter 9 folder of your exercise files. To add password protection means encrypting the document. And when entering the password to access the document, it becomes unencrypted. To do that, we go up to File and click Info, and it's here where you'll see Protect Document. Click…

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