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How to Put Password on PDF Files

All your essential and major documents have a foremost demand of caution. When it comes to the safety of your sensitive and important files it might feel that main thing is password. Whenever you create a file in PDF format you must lock it with password because prevention is better than cure. Now let's learn how to put password on PDF files to improve its security.

Part 1Best PDF Password Protection Software

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Wondershare PDFelement provides the best safety tools. It adds an extra security blanket to your confidential and important documents by applying open password and permission password. Without the correct password, no one can view, copy, edit and print the content from your PDF.

PDFelement is more than enough to protect your PDF documents. It has many other unique features like creating, editing, annotating and converting. With it, you are able to edit a PDF document to match your requirements. You can freely make changes on texts, images and pages, annotate content, add links and watermarks etc. Its OCR function can convert the scanned documents into editable text. It can also help you convert PDF to or from many popular document and file formats.

Part 2How to Put Password on PDF

To protect your files fully, the password must be very strong and you can make it strong by using a mixture of upper case letters and lower case letters. Without any delay let's take a look on how we can create and put password on your PDF documents.

Step 1. Import PDF File

Launch PDFelement on your computer and then upload the specific PDF file which needs to be protected by clicking the "Open" button. A new window will open and you will have to select the desired PDF document and then click on the "Open" icon.

To import PDF on Mac, you can move to the bottom right and click on the button named "Open File".

Step 2. Put PDF Password

Next step is to simply put the password when PDF file be opened on the program. You can go to the top menu and click "Protect > Password" to access the security options. Type your password. Retype the password to confirm.

On Mac, you need go to the right hand side to click the button "Protection > Encrypt with Password". Set your password and simply click the "OK" button.

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Published: Apr 29,2016 9:48 am / Updated: Jun 02,2016 16:22 pm

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