A recommended approach to secure your most private documents — whether it’s a PDF, Word file, or Excel spreadsheet — is to lock them with a passcode. While this does help keep sensitive ...

Encryption is the matter of safety, I've always said. If you want to keep movies, pictures and other files under a safe lock, choose a password protective software from our guide.

It is possible to open old Word documents such as Word 2003, Word 2007, Word 97, etc., documents in the latest version of Word in the Protected View.

In Office, you can password protect Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. Just encrypt the file with a password, and nobody will be able to open it unless they know the password.

I wanted to alert everyone of a new malware distributing SPAM that I just received that contains a password protected Word document, which pretends to be about a payment I would be receiving ...