In any Microsoft Word version, including Word 2010, you can password protect your documents to restrict unauthorized access to your documents. However, at any time you can decide to remove your ...

Microsoft Word's password-protect functionality is designed to prevent edits and modification to templates and other important documents. However, it can be a real pain if you need to edit or change a ...

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 content safe, ...

To remove the password, go back to File > Info > Protect Document or File > Info > Protect Workbook and choose the Encrypt with Password option. In the pop-up window that appears, delete the obscured ...

Microsoft admits that Word's password-protection feature can be easily bypassed, but argues it was never intended to ensure security. Microsoft has hit back at critics of Word's password-protect ...