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 ...

A recommended approach to secure your most private documents — whether it’s a PDF, Word file, or Excel spreadsheet — is to lock them with a passcode. While this does help keep sensitive content safe, ...

Microsoft admits that Word's password-protection feature can be easily bypassed, but argues it was never intended to ensure security. Microsoft has hit back at critics of Word's password-protect ...

I have a document which is password protecting the existing contents from any changes. (I can open and enter information without problems) All the word password recovery programs I've tried so far ...

Microsoft Word is the de facto standard in word processing. Simple on the surface, yet immensely capable and feature-rich when you poke around. It's one of those productivity applications that nearly ...