A recommended approach to secure your most private documents — whether it’s a PDF, Word file, or Excel spreadsheet — is to lock them with a passcode. While this does help keep sensitive ...

How to Bypass a Microsoft Word Document Password. Microsoft Word's password-protect functionality is designed to prevent edits and modification to templates and other important documents.

Attempt to open the protected file and a window pops up requesting the password to open the document. Enter the password and click "OK" to open the file, if you typed the correct password. Click ...