[any ANONYMOUS forum user]

I use a two or three step method for “Sensitive Documents” on my PC

1) use the "E" encrypted folders on external (NTFS formatted) hard drives / USB (NTFS formatted) chips, so if some one boots from my drive / chip they can’t access the files in the folder (unless they plug it into my pc) and

2) then within that "E" encrypted folder, I use a password protected multi-volume 7zip or RAR archive (it is important that I use not a ZIP archive and multiple volumes!),

so now if someone boots from my drive they not only have to connect it to my PC, they also have to contend with cracking the password of the encrypted multi-volume archive (I haven't seen any software that can do that, so brute forcing seems to be the only solution).

step three is only for apps that offer it.
3) any time an application offers the use of passwords for a document, spreadsheet etc. use it. then do step 1 & 2