How to digitally sign our Word documents

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Las nuevas versiones de Microsoft Office nos posibilitan firmar digitalmente nuestros documentos. Esto significará que los documentos no se pueden modificar y en el caso de que fueran modificados, dichos cambios estarían relacionados con otro Username.

This practice is not only used in situations where we need a lot of security, but also also in situations where we need to know who has written this document. As a result, it is becoming easier and easier to digitally sign Microsoft Office documents.

There are two types of digital signature, one invisible and one that adds a watermark with the owner's data. We are going to teach you how to make the first type of signature, since it is more practical and common among users who requires digitally signing a document. For this, after writing the document, we must go to the "Information" tab, within the "File" menu.

In Information we are going to Protect Document and in the drop-down menu that appears we go to the option Add a digital signature. After this, a dialog window will appear in which we will press the accept button and a window will appear to sign the document. We will have to add the reason or text that the digital signature will have. After adding the reason for the digital signature, click the sign button and Microsoft Word will lock the document.

To remove or remove the signature from the document, we have to repeat the same procedure. In other words, we must address File -> Information and press the button «View signatures». A window will appear with the list of signatures that this document has. Now we click on the arrow next to the name of the signature that we want to delete and click the "Delete signature" button. This will automatically remove the signature from the document, freeing it up and allowing you to edit it.

The digital signature offered by Microsoft Office is not very strong as you can see, but sufficient for many users and for many situations Don't you think?