Why when I open my password protected Pages document it doesn't require me to enter the password that I have set to see the document?

Probably your Keychain is filling it in for you.

Try it on another Mac.

Peter

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When you set a password in Pages v5(.2), you are offered a check box to remember the saved password in your keychain. If you do not enable this check box, you will always be prompted locally for the document password. If checked, before opening the document, Pages queries keychain if it knows anything about the current local document security, and once confirmed, it simply opens the document without a challenge.

To disable the keychain knowledge for the local document, you open the document, and choose File > Change Password… . Enter the current (old) password only, then select the Remove Password button. Now, you can use File > Set Password… again to set the password, and omit the Remember this password in my keychain option. The desired document password prompt will occur on your local (and remote) access.

I have a similar PW problem, but ONLY on iPad....on other devices, iPhone, MAC, I get PW challenge every time, but iPad the document opens without having to enter PW...HELP