With Office 2007, Microsoft got more serious about security. Office 2007 switched to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with a 128-bit key.
This is widely considered secure, and means that Office now uses real, strong encryption to protect your documents when you set a password. RELATED: What is Encryption, and Why Are People Afraid of It? We tested the PDF encryption feature and found that it uses 128-bit AES encryption on Office 2016, too. There are two big things you need to watch out for. First, only passwords that fully encrypt the document are secure. Office also allows you to set a password to “Restrict Editing” of a file–in theory, allowing people to view a file but not edit it without a password. This type of password can be easily cracked and removed, allowing people to edit the file.Īlso, Office’s encryption only works well if you’re saving to modern document formats like. Find some other manner to communicate the password to users other than email if you will be emailing the file.If you save to older document formats like. NOTE: Do not send an email with the file and the password in the same email. Save the document and it will no longer require a password to open it. To reverse this, repeat the steps without entering a password. The file is now encrypted and requires this password to open it.ĩ.DonÂt forget to save this password in a secure password manager and securely communicate this to any users or recipients of this file.ġ0.
You are prompted to reenter the same password.Ĩ. Passwords are case-sensitive and can be a maximum of 15 characters long.Ħ. In the Security section, in the Set a password to open this document field, enter the password to be used to access the file in the future.ĥ. Open the MS Word for Mac file you want to encrypt and password protect.ģ. To password protect and/or encrypt a document using Microsoft Word for Mac:ġ. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Project.Reporting an Information Security Incident.Fraudulent Unemployment Claims and Identity Theft.
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