This guide will explain how to make a Word document uneditable. By limiting editing, You can share Word documents safely without fear that others will change them.
Microsoft Office The latest version offers various types of protection on Word, among them are Encryption with Password and Restrict Editing.
This protection feature on Word documents only allows other people to read the document but not edit it. In a protected Word document, all menus related to editing and formatting become disabled.
How to protect a Word document? This guide will show you how to protect a Word document from changes by restricting editing in three easy steps.
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How to prevent Word documents from being edited
Perform the following three steps to restrict editing to a Word document.
Total Time: 5 minutes
Step 1: Enable Protection
In a Word document, click tab Review then select Restrict Editing
Step 2: Limit Editing
On panels Restrict Editing, check option Formatting restrictions And Editing restrictions then click the button Yes, Start Enforcing Protection
Step 3: Add Password Protection
In the dialog box Start Enforcing Protection, choose Password, then add a password for this document. You must remember this password to be able to edit this document again.
After pressing the OK button, Your documents will be protected from changes. If you want to make changes again, click Stop Protection then enter the password you have determined earlier.
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These are the short steps so that Word documents cannot be edited. Apart from limiting editing, you can too add watermark in Word as a sign that it is your work, The watermark you created cannot be removed if you have restricted editing.
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