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How to steal Word password and PDF files

When sending a file that contains important information or financial data, you want to make sure that it does not leak into the hands of third parties. We already wrote about secure messengers, which help to preserve the confidentiality of data that is being transferred. You can password protect the file itself.

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To detect file theft, the recipient is required to enter a password. You can password-protect Word, Excel, PowerPoint or PDF documents.

Microsoft Office File Protector

To set a password for a Word document, you need to use the following algorithm:

  1. Opening the file.
  2. We're going toMenu – File – Vidomosti – Lock document – ​​Encrypt with password.
  3. Enter the password.
  4. Підтворджюємо.
  5. Зберігаємо.

To protect an Excel document, you need to select the option Book Protection, and PowerPoint –Presentation guide.

Захист файлів PDF

To set a password for a PDF file, you can quickly use Adobe Acrobat, if you have the latest version. Or try a free trial version of Acrobat Pro. When installing the program, you are asked to enter your card details and after seven days are completed, if you do not sign up for a subscription, the monthly payment will be debited from the card.

Adobe Acrobat

Algorithm for setting a password in Adobe Acrobat:

  1. We open the PDF file.
  2. Select from the menu File – Protect with password.
  3. We choose a protection option: from review to editing.
  4. Enter and confirm the password.
  5. After checking the strength of the password, select Застосувати.

If you add a password to PDF files with the possibility of editing, difficulties may arise. Here you can help by making a copy of the document and setting a password on it.

To work with PDF files, there are manual and functional cost-free programs, for example:

PDF24 – software for robots in the Windows operating system and online.

PDF24 Creator – stationary program. It also offers additional functions such as editing, merging and separating files, converting, etc.

Algorithm for creating a password for a file:

  1. Selecting a function Protect PDF.

  1. Opening the file.
  2. Enter the password.
  3. НатискаємоHide PDF files.
  4. We save the file, in short, with names that are different from the original file.

PDF24 Tools– an online version of the program with the same set of functions, which is stationary. To protect the file, the password is set to the same sequence of actions as in the stationary version.

PDFEncrypt

PDFEncrypt – another cost-free tool for protecting PDF files. The algorithm behind it is:

  1. Select the required document.

  1. Enter the password, select Encrypt - encrypt.
  2. The document name is completed encrypted.

  1. In the settings you can allow or protect the copy, etc.

CleverPDF – another resource for working with PDF files. It offers 44 cost-free online tools for work, including password protection of files.

To protect the file, we enter the following sequence of actions:

  1. Select Encrypt PDF

  1.  We can open or drag the file by pressing it with the mouse button.
  2. Indicates the order of setting a password.

The program allows you to set a password for editing, copying and other documents.

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