Word Password Protection - Can it Protect your Word Documents?

The Word password protection feature can be use to protect yourpersonal document from being open by other people that can access to your PC.

If you share a computerwith someone else or you work in a multi-user environment where it is possible for others on your network to gain access to your hard drive, you may want to assign password protection to some of your documents containing sensitive information.

To assign password protection in Word

From the Tools menu, click Options.

From the Options dialog box displayed, click the Security tab

Under the File encryption options for this document section enter a password in the box labeled Password to open:

The Advanced… button opens a dialog box that allows you to specify more options, such as whether you wish to protect the document properties.

Click OK will open the Confirm Password dialog box.

Retype the same password again and click OK to save your password.

Click OK.

Note: If you do not want other to modify your document, enter a password in the Password to modify: box under the File sharing options for this document section.

Controlling Word Page Break

Word Page break is the point at which one page ends and another begins. Microsoft Wordinserts an "automatic" (or soft) page break for you, or you can force a page break at a specific location by inserting a "manual" (or hard) pagebreak.

For some types of documents you may want to make sure that any given paragraph appears all on one page or another. Word includes a formatting feature that allows you to ensure that paragraphs stay together without a page break in the middle of them.

You can control this by setting pagination options.

To set the page break pagination options

Select/highlight the paragraph or paragraphs that contain lines you want to keep together.

From the Format menu, click Paragraph.

From the Paragraph dialog box displayed, make sure the Line and Page Breaks tab is selected.

Select the appropriate check box:

Widow/Orphan control: Control widow and orphan lines. This option is turned on by default.
Keep lines together: To keep lines of a paragraph together on a page or in a column.
Keep with next: To paragraphs together on a page or in a column.
Page break before: Always force a page break before a paragraph.

Click on OK button.