How to Encrypt/Unencrypt a PowerPoint Presentation

    Encrypting a PowerPoint Presentation

    To password protect a PowerPoint Presentation, please follow these instructions:

    1. Open your document in Microsoft PowerPoint on the computer application (download a file from the online version if using Office365 online).

    2. Click on 'File' from the navigation menu.

    3. Click on 'Info' from the side bar and then click on 'Protect Presentation'.


    4. Select the Appropriate Restriction Options (to password protect, select 'Encrypt with Password')

                    
    5. Enter a desired password and then click on 'OK'.
    6. Reenter the desired password and then click on 'OK'.
    Your PowerPoint presentation is now password protected with any restrictions you selected.

    Unencrypting a PowerPoint Presentation

    To remove a password from a PowerPoint Presentation, please follow these instructions: (password protection will need to be removed by the user who originally protected the presentation.)

    1. Open your document in Microsoft PowerPoint on the computer application.

    2. Click on 'File' from the navigation menu.

    3. Click on 'Info' from the side bar and then click on 'Protect Presentation'.

    4. Click on 'Encrypt with Password'.
     
    5. Delete the password used to protect the document and then click on 'OK'.

    The password protection has now been removed from your document.
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