
Let us tell you how, open the document that you want to lock and click on ‘Save As’ option. By doing this whenever user tries to open the word file, MS Word will prompt for password to open respective file.


Users can protect the word files data by applying a password to them. The following segment of this guide will help you to rightly perform the process of locking Word files as well as unlocking word files. For such scenarios MS Word itself provides a brilliant opportunity for users to lock and unlock the word files so that data cannot be altered or misused by any unauthorized users.

Sometimes few of those files carry sensitive information and thus require to be protected. MS Word documents are widely used to store vital information of users.
