How to Password Protect a Microsoft Word Document
November 23rd, 2009 | 
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While working on important documents (documents that shouldn’t be changed), you may like to password protect the document so that no one could open or read your important files. The way to password protect a Microsoft word document, is really simple. Here goes how:
• Open Microsoft Word and open or create the document that you want to password protect.
• Click on “File” in the toolbar and select “Save As”.
• Click on the “Tools” menu and select “Security Options”.
• This will open a “Security Options” window. You may now set a password under the “Password to open” box, “Password to modify” box or both.
• Once you type in the password of your choosing you can opt to make the file “Read-only” by checking the appropriate box. You may then click “OK” to save your changes and then save your document as usual.
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A) Open document > Select edit menu > choose select all > then choose copy from edit menu.
Open new document > edit menu> paste.
Select tools menu> choose options> window opens with options. Select form different tabs the edit
tab> make sure that al desired boxes are selected.
Select save tab>choose and mark box>ask about properties
accept or Apply options and close.
Save new document different name. When saving it should ask if you want to save properties>
choose not save. Maybe it asks if you want to modify properties> choose yes> select box archive
amongst read only, hidden or archive.
If this does not work.
B)There are many 3rd party utilities which claim to recover forgotten word password:
The program that I recommend is the Word Password Recovery 5.0 It recovers/removes the “Password
to Open” and “Password to Edit” for you to view and edit the document freely.
http://www*recoverlostpassword*com/products/wordpasswordrecovery*html