Hello, Im very new here . I have been attempting to save my existing work in documents in an encrypted format. I watched a training video form microsoft and it all looked very straight forward until i got past the advanced tab on the general settings page. When I entered into the advanced attributes settings the setting for encryption is greyed out. I have tried researching the soultion to changing this greyed out box to an active field , however I find it all very complicated to understand. My System is Windows 7 so as i understand it I ought to be able to invoke this option. Am I missing a trick in the Settings panel or control panel on the pc? Hopefully someone can give me a simple answer simple step by step instructions as im really not to good with all of this hi tech stuff. Many thanks . Trevorguern.