Hi all,<BR><BR>A horrific thing happened to me this morning as I went to retrieve a Word document that I've been modifying off-and-on for oh-around 5 years now. I couldn't remember the password.

A simple hack to Word's password-protection feature means documents may not be as secure as users believe. No fix is on the way, says Microsoft. Microsoft Word documents that use the software's ...

Microsoft has hit back at critics of Word's password-protect feature, which the company has admitted is not safe from hackers. The tool is intended to make collaboration easier, Microsoft told ZDNet ...

Microsoft Office Word for Mac provides several document protection tools, including the ability to encrypt individual documents with passwords. This password protection feature comes in handy if there ...

Most folks have a few documents–legal forms, business records, account spreadsheets, etc.–they’d like to protect from prying eyes. Here’s a little-known fact: Word and Excel let you assign passwords ...