How to send a password protected attachment

[pld72]

I have a saved word document that requires a password to open. I want to
send as an attachment in Outlook. However, the recipients are not able to
open and get alot of "gibberish."

 

[Bob I]

Provided you used the Save AS feature to password protect the file.
After you have saved the password protected document, open a new email
and Insert the file.

 

[pld72]

Yes, I did use Save As to protect the file, and I did open a new email &
inserted the document as an attachment, but recipients cannot open the
attachment and get pages of gibberish in the body of the email.

 

[Bob I]

Hard to know what the recipients are doing, BUT they should Save the
file to their hard drive first, and THEN open it with Word using the
password you provided. This assumes they have a similar version of Word
as you, and we don't have 97 trying to open 2007 or Open Office involved.