Google Drive may not let you encrypt individual Google Docs, but there are still ways to protect your security and privacy. Here's how to keep your Docs from prying eyes.

Google Drive may not let you encrypt individual Google Docs, but there are still ways to protect your security and privacy. Here's how to keep your Docs from prying eyes.

Learn how to password-protect and encrypt a Document stored on Google Drive. Encrypt Google Docs by following any of these methods.

If you want to store particularly sensitive documents in Google Drive, you can easily encrypt a document on your PC, then upload it using Google's Backup and Sync desktop program.

Open the document in question and head to File > Protect Document > Encrypt with Password. Pick a password for the file and make sure you remember it—if you forget, that file will be lost forever.

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