Password Protecting An entire folder in documents?

I need to be able to password protect a folder within my Documents folder, as it contains very sensitive info. Does anyone know how to do this in pages '09? Thanks

Use Disk Utility to create a password-protected Disk Image - choose a size large enough to store all the documents you expect to put in it. Place this wherever convenient: double-clicking it will ask for a password and open the image (looking like an external hard disk) and you can copy your files into it. When you close it it will require the password to re-open it.
Don't forget the password

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