Word has a built in password protection system you can use to quickly and effectively protect your files. Step 1: Open the Word document that you want to secure with a password. Then, select File , followed by Info then Protect Document . Step 2: You can choose a few options to protect the file, from making it Read Only, so that it can no longer be edited, or you can control the changes that are allowed to be made to the document moving forward. For our needs, though, you want to select Enc
