Password-protecting a document

Many of the documents you're creating in Microsoft Word are probably intended for …sharing with others. And yet, just because you eventually plan …to share those documents with others doesn't mean you want to provide free …access to the document while you're still working on it. …Here for example, I have the initial draft of The Great American Novel. …And when I say initial draft, I mean very, very initial. …There is not even a single word that's worth publishing just yet, but I still …want to protect this document. And so, I'm going to add a password, so …that if someone else gets a copy of this document, they won't be able to open it …unless they have my password. To do so, I'll click on the Microsoft …Office button, and then I want to go to the Prepare section of Options.…

And within the submenu for Prepare, I'm going to choose Encrypt Document. …This will encrypt the document and also allow me to add a password to it in that process. …I'll click that option. And you'll see that I am asked for a password. …