This quick tutorial is thanks to a question asked by a client last week, she had a Word document that she wanted to save as a pdf document but also wanted to password protect it and didn’t know how. I was happy to help 🙂

Firstly click on Save As, which will open up the Save As dialogue box, click on the drop down arrow under Save as type:, and choose PDF…

Save as pdf

Click on Options…

Options pdf

This will open another dialogue box, tick the box marked Encrypt the document with a password, and click OK…

encrypt pdf

Type in your password (twice) and click OK…

type password pdf

Then click Save.  This should then automatically try to open the pdf file but will ask you for a password first…

open pdf

Type in your password and it will then open the pdf file.  That’s it – I hope you’ve found this helpful 🙂