Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Word 2003

Other Methods for Securing Documents

There are other options for securing Word documents, which depend on the features of the underlying operating system you are running. For example:

• Files stored on Windows 2000 systems can be encrypted using Windows 2000's Encrypted File System (EFS).

• Files stored on any Windows system can be hidden by setting their file attributes. In Windows 2000 or Windows XP, follow these steps:

   

  1.	Open Windows Explorer.
  2.	Select and right-click the file you want to hide. The shortcut menu appears.
  3.	Choose Properties from the shortcut menu.
  4.	In the General tab, check the Hidden box.
  5.	Click OK.

If the file is still visible, this means you have changed your Windows Explorer folder options so that they display hidden files. ...