How can I password protect My Documents to stop other people reading them?
When you go to save the document for the first time or ‘save as’ there will be a button in the window where you choose where to save it. The name of it varies on what version you have, but on word 2007 its ‘Tools’ (at the bottom). From there, there will be the option general options (again this may change depending on which version you are using. Could be ‘Security settings’ or something like that). Then you just put in a password and you’re all good. One thing though, if you forget the password then you’ve lost the document, and theres no way to retrieve it again.
