Can I password protect a Publisher file?

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Published on 2012-09-20T08:45:58Z Indexed on 2012/09/20 9:41 UTC
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I was asked ealier this week if it was possible to password protect a Microsoft Office 2007 Publisher document. I was under the impression that it would be like protecting a Word document, by going to Office > Save As > Word Document > Tools > General Options and creating a password to modify, like shown below. This also works for Excel documents.

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However, in Publisher 2007 the option is not there. The only option under "Tools" is "Map network drive".

We overcame the issue as saving as a PDF and distributing that, but is there a way to do what we want?

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