You can encrypt a Microsoft Word document on your Mac or Windows PC in a few easy steps. Encrypting your Word document will require anyone opening it to enter a ...

Microsoft Office Word for Mac provides several document protection tools, including the ability to encrypt individual documents with passwords. This password protection feature comes in handy if there ...

A simple hack to Word's password-protection feature means documents may not be as secure as users believe. No fix is on the way, says Microsoft. Microsoft Word documents that use the software's ...

Some of us refuse to leaves our laptops unattended, allowing even close friends to check their email as a "guest user" only. Then again, some of us have no problem asking a stranger to keep an eye on ...

Most folks have a few documents–legal forms, business records, account spreadsheets, etc.–they’d like to protect from prying eyes. Here’s a little-known fact: Word and Excel let you assign passwords ...