Document Password?

In MS Word you have the option to save the .doc with "Security", that is a password on the doc. Is there a similar setting I have missed in Pages? I share documents with several PC users so I need to use the Word .doc format and the documents need to be encrypted.
If not any other suggestions? I was wondering about creating an encrypted zip file. Any 3rd party free or shareware you could suggest?
Thanks!

I share documents with several PC users so I need to use the Word .doc format and the documents need to be encrypted
In terms of international standardisation, encryption properly belongs in the softcopy document solutions for information interchange and not in the authoring applications. Thus encryption belongs in ODF and OOXML for page markup models and PDF and XPS for page description models.
Encryption in the authoring application encourages application-dependent interchange of information, that is, the author and the audience have to acquire the selfsame software product - Microsoft Word. Even Microsoft wants to move away from this.
Best wishes,
Henrik

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