need to keep a nosy houseguest from reading my stories

[DarlingNikki]

Not sure if this is the place for this but...

I have a bunch of stories in Microsoft Word and I can't close down the whole thing because it's just a temporary setup and I will only be able to open it a few more times.

Is there a way I can put a password on just one folder within Word?

 

[Mr_Zac]

When saving your stories in Word save/click optons/click securities/enter password to open Document...this should keep the prying eyes away

 

[Mr_Zac]

Once you password this you can infact save all your stories in the one file eliminating the need for multi passwording or do as I do and use one pasword on each document

 

[Mr_Zac]

Email me id you have further probs

 

[sheath]

I'm just wondering...

WHY do you have to password it?

The other option would be to just tell this houseguest that you have private and personal things there. I mean, it's YOUR place. Right? You make the rules in your own domain, baby.



S.

 

[Lust Engine]

I'm just wondering...

WHY do you have to password it?

The other option would be to just tell this houseguest that you have private and personal things there. I mean, it's YOUR place. Right? You make the rules in your own domain, baby.



S.

Here here! You're the queen of your own domain! Why even give them that kind of freedom to snoop?

 

[Avery_Chisholm]

tell em straight

 

[DarlingNikki]

I'm just wondering...

WHY do you have to password it?

The other option would be to just tell this houseguest that you have private and personal things there. I mean, it's YOUR place. Right? You make the rules in your own domain, baby.



S.

That's all very well, but I'm certainly not going to tell someone, "hey by the way, there are private and personal stories in Word, so don't look" unless I'm deliberately trying to pique his curiosity. He's going to be using my computer so he may stumble across them innocently because Word will be open. He's not a bad guy, but he's only human and he's in some of the stories so I wouldn't blame him if he kept reading. I'd rather just avoid the whole situation by a simple password.

I'm assuming you all lock your doors at night even though no one's supposed to walk in and help themselves to your stuff?

 

[DarlingNikki]

Here here! You're the queen of your own domain! Why even give them that kind of freedom to snoop?

I'm trying to take away his freedom to snoop.

 

[DarlingNikki]

Whoops... thank you Mr. Zac

 

[SlickTony]

What everybody else said. Go into Tools/Options/Security and password each document. I do that with mine. I don't care that much if my husband reads the stuff, and my son doesn't like fiction, but if he should ever take it into his head to start reading it I don't necessarily want him to start with mine.

 

[BlondGirl]

You people are all whacked. If you really want people to leave your shit alone, you have to make it unappealing.

Rename your files with titles such as:

Crochet beginner
hagis recipe
oil change history
Sears bill rundown
entomology report
Song-Star Spangled (make a whole list of long titles that are familiar)
Sewing with Nancy schedule
Fabio's makeup tips
Vet records-Spot
Vet records-Fluffy


At the job I just quit, I used to put patients' names on them-LOL--NO ONE wanted to take on my work and they were never EVER touched.

List then in a file folder with your neighbor's name on them and then number the documents or have a folder titled "Political letters"

Of course, you have to customize it for whatever it is that the person/people dislike.

I also put things in the "wrong" folder. My "Music" folder has categories of :
Christian
Funnies
Listening Music
Other great stuff
Stuff to download
Unknown Artist.

In the funnies and great stuff folders, there are some teasers that will keep the person occupied for a good while, both songs, videos, and pictures/jokes. Nobody bothers to investigate the Recipes folder that is inside the Company Picnic folder that is inside of the Obligations folder that is inside the Stuff to Download folder.

If a search is done, the titles match the folders.

I have someone transferring the contents of my old hard drive to CD from a crashed computer. I was concerned about the pictures but the "documents" more. I expected him to search the pix (he is a perv like me) but I really doubt he will open the Chorelist Word document or Chore Sunday, Chore Monday, etc.

Of course, I am a bit paranoid....

 

[James G 5]

You people are all whacked. If you really want people to leave your shit alone, you have to make it unappealing.

Rename your files with titles such as:

Crochet beginner
hagis recipe<snip
I have someone transferring the contents of my old hard drive to CD from a crashed computer. I was concerned about the pictures but the "documents" more. I expected him to search the pix (he is a perv like me) but I really doubt he will open the Chorelist Word document or Chore Sunday, Chore Monday, etc.

Of course, I am a bit paranoid....

I use some methods like these, and they work
I take a few other steps, too, but I won't say what they are HERE

Being a bit paranoid myself!

 

[BlondGirl]

Being a bit paranoid myself!

Ya know...I gotta tell ya...paranoid men really turn me on!






HAHAHAHA--Just kidding.


Maybe.

 

[SlickTony]

If I came across a file marked "haggis recipe," I would try to open it at once, since I'll try anything for the first time, and I'm not sure that my Joy of Cooking has one, although I might be wrong and I'm just too lazy to go and look it up. There are some people who'll read anything and this kind of ruse is worse than useless against them. MSWord has a perfectly simple and efficient procedure for passwording one's documents--why not use it?

 

[bluespoke]

If I came across a file marked "haggis recipe," I would try to open it at once, since I'll try anything for the first time, and I'm not sure that my Joy of Cooking has one, although I might be wrong and I'm just too lazy to go and look it up.

Hey! What's with all these references to my delicious national dish?

 

[Lust Engine]

Silly thought here...

Why not just download them onto a disc & re-install them after your guest has left??

 

[shopperst]

On a related note...

Does anyone know how to password a whole folder?

 

[WynEternal]

Hey! What's with all these references to my delicious national dish?

I'm still wanting this.

 

[Johnny Mayberry]

Shoot your houseguest.
Bury under rosebush.
Wait for beautiful roses to bloom.

 

[sheath]

I'm assuming you all lock your doors at night even though no one's supposed to walk in and help themselves to your stuff?

Of course I do. But see, here's the point: My FRIENDS in my HOME know the boundaries.

We're not talking a stranger, burglar, or a serial killer here, I take it? We're talking about someone you invite into your home? So, that invitation carries with it the weight of his/her respect.

If it were me? Tell him what's on there. Tell him not to touch it. If he's a friend, he won't.

My two cents. Again. So, that would make four, right?

S.

 

[SlickTony]

And it really isn't all that much of a hassle to password your documents. I do it all the time.

 

[BlondGirl]

MSWord has a perfectly simple and efficient procedure for passwording one's documents--why not use it?

It doesn't work for me on this computer. It could be that I am too stupid. But, of course, I was able to pass a very speicalized level of physics into the 4th level, so I don't think that is the problem....
I am also not hardly computer-stupid, so it can't be that easy (just MAYBE--the lack of ease is why this thread has so many responses to it...Hhhmmm...of course, that would be too obvious to figure out though, right?).

 

[BlondGirl]

Sorry about the misspellings, too much sleep deprivation combined with the rum tonight.....

 

[SlickTony]

It doesn't work for me on this computer.

What happens when you try?