How do I password protect an Adobe Reader file when it is greyed out?

I have several documents that need to be password protected and I am unable to protect them already in Adobe.  I only have Adobe Reader at this time.  Is this possible to do without having to have another version of Adobe? 

To add security, you need Adobe Acrobat.

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