How can I view the password while setting?
I am the only person in the building, I am not in a college with a ton of students trying to spy on me, or on even on a networked computer. There is definitely no one looking over my shoulder, or spying through the window with a telescope (I have net curtains). My cat cannot read English, and AFAICT LibreOffice does not support cat language).
However, I am old, and frequently forget the password between setting it and writing it on a post-it note to stick on my screen 
I want the document protected while sending it by email to someone else who may need to edit it (so sending a PDF is not the answer).
If it is possible to set the password to visible while creating it, why is it not obvious how to do it?