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Tips to encrypt documents and PDF files with Office

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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...

Organize your documents with a word to PDF converter

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We all had such moments when you are trying to send documents to something important, for example, to an application for work, only to receive the message “format not accepted”. Even widely used formats, such as Word documents, sometimes handle this treatment, so it’s convenient to have a program that can easily change document formats. Due to the fact that PDF is the main universal standard, PDFbeaver is an excellent tool for Word to PDF and increasing your compatibility - plus, of course, it is free and easy to use! PDFBeaver.com a PDF Converter helps a lot in what it describes. You really cannot be mistaken in a program that has one function and sticks to it, providing it for online free tool. The fact is that no two conversion programs coincide, some are mistaken. They are usually associated with formatting, for example, losing the formatting of the source file or interpreting it differently, so the PDF format looks different than a Word document. This PDF converter tool, f...

How to Protect Documents and PDFs with Owner and User Passwords in Excel

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There are two ways to protect a PDF file: owner password and user password. We will explain the purpose of each of them and show how to apply them to your PDF files. Owner Password or Permissions allows you to apply permissions to the PDF file. For example, if you do not want to allow printing of a PDF file or extracting pages, you can choose what you want to allow rather than allow and apply the owner password to the PDF file. The owner password can also be called a master password. This is what allows you to change these permissions. User or Open password allows you to require the user to enter a password even to view PDF. If they do not enter the correct password, the PDF file will not open. There are several online services for protecting PDF files, such as PDFBeaver, but if you want to add a password to a confidential document, you are probably not comfortable uploading it to an unknown service. So, in this guide we will focus on the best offline mode. We looked ...

How to Securely Send Files over the Internet

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  Password protect (or encrypt) files before sending One of the best ways to protect our files when we are going to send them over the Internet is to protect them with a password so that if someone gets hold of it, they cannot open it. Or you can also protect them from copying and pasting by converting them word to PDF . Use PDF Beaver to convert your word files to PDF and send them securely to anyone. There are several ways to do this. One of the easiest for users is to compress them into a ZIP or RAR and protect access to that file with a password. In this way, only those who have the password will be able to open the file. Another, much more secure way to protect data is to apply some form of encryption to files. Encryption completely modifies all the code in the file, so there will be no way to open it without the corresponding key to decrypt it. If we opt for this security measure, we must take into account some aspects: We must use long, strong and random ...

JPG to PDF Converter for Android

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Imagine that you decided to write an application for converting from JPG, BMP, WEBP and PNG to PDF, in your opinion useful for users, and wrote it. Good function and sometimes necessary, why? For example, banks sometimes ask for PDF instead of pictures, and try to collect pieces of 5 images, for example, JPG to PDF, and this is our goal. Then you still make the application, and the question arises about its promotion on Google Play. Search and find ... It turns out that there are analogues of your application and there are 120 of them , try typing the request "Image to PDF" on Google Play and see for yourself. 95% of applications have the same design, the only difference is in colors, icons, and the one who released it. It seems that the whole village of the Indians had a task to release the application and drop it on Google Play and get 100 installations per year, because no one in their right mind will upload the application and try to promote it. By the wa...