How To Password Protect Microsoft Word 2007 Files

We all use Microsoft Word to create documents.But there are certain documents that you dont want other people to access specially when you are on a shared computer in your company and you may have your certain secret data stored in your word document that should not be accessed by your boss or other employee’s.To deal with such a situation Microsoft word 2007 integrated a security feature in Microsoft word so that you can password protect your files.The procedure is quite simple .
In this tutorial I will explain you the step by step procedure with screenshots Of How To Password Protect Microsoft Word 2007 Files
Step 1:- Click on the Microsoft Office Button present on the top left corner of the window.

Step 2:- Now Click on the Save As option

Step 3:- Now a new window will pop up.Click on Tools option at the bottom of the window.

Step 4:- Now you will have two options.You can select either one or both options
Step 5:- One is Password To Open it will ask for the password every time the document is opened.So to view the document you have to enter the password first.

Step 6:- Second is Password To Modify it will ask for the password every time somebody tries to modify the document.
Step 7:- then OK, it will ask you to re-enter the passwords. And thats it.

Want to Convert office 2007(x) files to old format?

Tired of using online converters for converting docx or xlsx files  to doc and xls? Fear about losing sensitive data while convert it online? Here is a cool tool for you.

Download the compatibly pack from Microsoft.

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats

Install it in your computer/laptop.

Now you can go to the document and "right click" on it then you will see a "Save As" menu item as in the following screenshot.

Here you can convert a docx file to doc and a doc file to docx or docm format. The conversion is also available for xlxs to xls and vice versa.

You have office 2007 and don't know how to save the file as doc format.
Click on the "Windows" button on the top and click on "Save As" then the dialog box as shown in the following screenshot will appear. Now you can select the "Save as Type" as select the format that you need.