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 ...

I wanted to alert everyone of a new malware distributing SPAM that I just received that contains a password protected Word document, which pretends to be about a payment I would be receiving ...

Tech guru Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson explains how to password-protect files or folders in the cloud and on file-sharing platforms like Microsoft Word, OneDrive and Google Drive.

In Office, you can password protect Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. Just encrypt the file with a password, and nobody will be able to open it unless they know the password.