IBM Lotus Symphony


Saving documents with password

You can assign a password to a document to prevent users from making unauthorized changes to it.

To protect a document with a password

  1. Open the document.
  2. Click File > Save As with Password. The Save As window opens.
  3. Select the Save as type and click Save. Then the Enter Password window opens.
  4. Enter at least five characters as a password, then reenter it to confirm.
  5. Click OK.When the file is saved, the password you entered is recorded in the document. To open the document, a user must supply the correct password.
Note: If you save the document as MS file types, the password must not exceed fifteen characters. If you save the document as ODF file type, there is no such limitation.

Opening a password-protected document

  1. Click File > Open and select the password-protected file.

  2. Enter the password at the prompt.

    The file opens.

Changing or removing a document password

  1. Open the document.

  2. Enter the document password at the prompt.

  3. Click File > Save As with Password

  4. Do one of two things:

    1. Change the old password by typing the new password in place of the bullets at the prompts,

    2. Remove the password by deleting both the password and its confirmation in the two fields.

  5. Click OK.


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