Office 2010 and Windows 7 Professional.
Use PASSWORDS for confidential Word and Excel files but SAW somewhere that MS password protection is not secure. You knowledgeable opinion please.
Thank you

The password on a computer can be hacked. MS office 2010 is still being supported until the later part of this year. So if using that run your windows update and it will still have security fixes in place for the office suite.

Depends on what's in the documents of course. As an extra layer of protection you could use the password protect and then encrypt the file itself with some encryption software.
I've put a LINK here. It might have something you haven't tried yet.

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/geek-stuff/password-protect-encrypt-microsoft-office-2010-documents/It is quite easy to bypass protection on Word/Excel for versions earlier than 2013. The new versions are with 256-AES,which is hard to decryptQuote from: floriccc on FEBRUARY 19, 2020, 08:56:26 PM

It is quite easy to bypass protection on Word/Excel for versions earlier than 2013. The new versions are with 256-AES,which is hard to decrypt

Yeah,some ways to bypass/unlock protection on Word/Excel can be found on Google,but i don't know if it works for 256-AES versions.