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An Ounce of Prevention. If you decide to send confidential information via email, it is highly recommended that you protect the documents you send with a password and then communicate the password separately. This, at least, provides some measure of confidence that your confidential information, if intercepted, will have some protection.

How to Password Protect. In order to password protect an MSWord document, select: — File — Save As — Tools — General Options —. Then, at the bottom left of the window that opens, add your password and click — ok —. Send the password protected document in one email. Then, send Attorney Louis Ventre, Jr. the password in a second email.  Other programs will probably also have a means to password protect a document.