Symptom
You want to protect your Microsoft Word 2007 from been modified or readable to others.
Solution
1. Choose on Save As > Tools > General Options.
2. If you choose to lock the user from opening the document, you need the password on Password to open. Else, if you want to protect the document with read only option, you need to tick the Read-only recommended. You can also set the Password to modify if you wanted to grant some users to have the authorization to modify the document.
3. Click OK and you’ll be prompted with password verifications. Enter the password for confirmation. Once done, you can double click the document and see how is the protection working!
