Tips to encrypt documents and PDF files with Office

Microsoft Office allows you to encrypt your documents or secure your PDF files, which makes it possible to protect your document with a password. In other words, if you set a password on a document, then no one can open it without it. In this article we’ll tell you how to password protect documents and PDF files. The instruction was created in Office 2016 but is suitable for other versions of the office. How secure is it to password protect a document? In Office 2007 and above, Microsoft took security more seriously and switched to Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). Now, if you set a password for a document, it will be very difficult to crack it, and in theory your document will be completely safe. In document protection, you can set a password for editing a document. That is, a person without a password will be able to view documents, but not edit. This type of protection can be easily cracked and removed. Therefore, if you set a password, then it is desirable f...