Encrypt a PowerPoint Presentation

Encryption Keeps Prying Eyes Out of Your Presentations

Encryption can be added to PowerPoint to keep others from accessing your presentation(s). Any viewer wishing to open this presentation will have to enter a password that you have previously set when you encrypted the document.

Steps to Encrypt PowerPoint Presentations

1. Open the presentation.
2. Click on the Office button.
3. From the drop down list, choose Prepare > Encrypt Document
4. Enter a secure password. Hint - Try to avoid words in the dictionary, or words that can be easily associated with you, such as the name of your pet or child.
5. Click OK
6. Re-enter the password to confirm.
7. Click OK once again.

You have now encrypted this presentation so that a password is needed to open it.

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