[QUOTE 5160275, member: 9609"]anyone use any of the free software for this ? don't fancy paying adobe for something I might use one or twice a year.
Or is there a way I could protect a notepad or wordpad document instead ?[/QUOTE]
I cannot really answer your question, not having used any of the free software intended for this purpose, but, you need to identify to what degree you want to "secure" the file(s). If you simply wish to prevent someone, other that yourself, changing them, then password protection, or, saving them to a location, on your PC, only updatable by yourself, would suffice.