When you do any work in MS word, you always want your documents to be protected, would you? The reasons vary; you need to protect your Microsoft Word documents from publishing or unauthorized access. What are the features of the protection of Microsoft ® Office Word 2003, part of Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 provide?
Features of Microsoft Word document protection discussed are. Microsoft Word offers three types of password protection.
1. Password required viewing the document
When you assign a password to open a document you are denying access to anyone to this document who does not know the password. To assign a password for opening documents that can be used.
- Go to Save As >Tools >Security Options, and an existing one, click Menu >Tools >Options >Security.
2. Modify requires password to save your changes.
Allows you to change the password for all users to view and edit a document in read-only, but not to save these changes. Only an authorized user is allowed to save changes. Note that when you open a document in read-only and copy to a new document with a clipboard, you can get an unprotected copy of your document.
This password is defined in the same manner and to the same window as the password to open.
3. Document protection.
With this type of protection that your document to avoid any disruption. Anyone can read freely, but no one is allowed to modify, copy, or format. To some extent, is similar to view PDF files with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
You can set or remove this type of protection: Tools> Protect Document or Unprotect document select and implement security exclusions. These are the main features of Microsoft Word 2003. It is nice when everything works well, but if someone cracks your protection to guess your password? And what will you do if you have lost or forgotten password for your document? How powerful and reliable protection for Microsoft Word 2003?
When assigning the password, the program warns you not to lose it, because you can not recover the password later. This is not quite correct. Any password can be cracked. The question is how long it will take to eliminate the special program for your password. For example, the password protection of documents uses a fairly simple method of protection and for a few seconds it is sufficient to recover the password. It is similar with Password to modify. But it is not easy with Password to open:
The new version has more security cryptoproof, but will take many years to overcome brute force and PIV computers.
