How can I lock Pages and Numbers files on my desktop?

I have a Numbers spreadsheet and some documents in Pages that I'd like to 'lock' or password protect.  The old Appleworks program used to allow me to 'lock' files.   Is there a way to do this using Lion or is there a simple app I can use?

There is a way to do that in both Pages and Numbers in Snow Leopard; I don;t have Lion available to see if that was carried forward to it.
In SL, with the document open click the Inspector button in the toolbar for  the document. In the Inspector window, click the leftmost icon in its toolbar ("document inspector" in the popup tooltip), If a Pages document, also then click the Document button below that icon.
Then, at the bottom of the window look for an item "Require password to open" - checkmark that, and you'll be prompted to set a password.

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