How to Password Protect a Google Docs Using Third-Party Extensions

This is the method to censor the part of the document that you want to hide from many people and want only a few members to view that confidential information.

Step 1: Open your Google Doc

Open Google Docs in a web browser and create a blank document.

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/

Step 2: Navigate to the Extension tab, choose Add-Ons, and then select Get Add-ons

Step 3: Type the name in the Search Bar and Select the App
 

Step 4: Click on Install Icon

Step 5: Go to Extensions, Click on Add-Ons, and Select Doc Secrets

Step 6: Set the password

Open the DocSecret app, create a password for the document, and click on the start option.

Step 7: Censor the text

Now select the text that you want to encrypt and click on the Censor Text option.

The text became censored, and no one would be able to know the text behind it without revealing it.

Now the user with whom you want to share the document has to install the DocSecret app (Step 1) and will have to know the password to uncensor the text.

Step 8: View the censored text

The user will open the document and have to enter the correct password, which the owner has set, and press the start button.

Step 9: Reveal the text

Now option will come to reveal the uncensored text. Press on it to view it

There you go !! the censored part will now be visible.

Google Docs is a widely used free word processor to create, edit, and share documents with multiple people. In Google Docs, the file gets automatically saved on Google Drive cloud storage. Google Docs also takes care of the person who wants to protect his sensitive or personal documents and wants to share the document with only a few people. In this article, we have mentioned three methods and discussed them in brief on how you can protect your Google Docs.

Note: The password protection option isn’t directly supported for Google Docs. A person’s documents are protected by their email account password. There isn’t any way to access the document unless you share the document with them or share your email password.