How to protect your Word document from being edited

Whether you’re sharing a work record or distributing a report on the web, there are times when you need to safeguard your report from changes. Limit others from altering or reformatting a Word report by handicapping altering and involving a secret key to make a read-just record in Microsoft Word 2013. You can likewise oversee authorizations utilizing the document’s properties, without opening Word.

Safeguard a report with Restrict Editing

To hold anybody back from making changes to a record, you need to confine altering. Select the Review tab and snap Restrict Editing. Actually take a look at the container under Editing Restrictions and pick No Changes.

A secret phrase isn’t needed, yet you can set one if yo need for more noteworthy report security. To set a secret key, click Yes, Start Enforcing Protection. Enter and affirm a secret key, and afterward click .

Switch off record insurance

To incapacitate the insurance, click Stop Protection. On the off chance that you had turned on secret key assurance, you’ll have to enter it and snap.

To limit organizing changes, pick Restrict Editing from the Review tab and actually take a look at the case under Formatting Restrictions. In the spring up window, actually take a look at the container to restrict organizing. Uncheck every one of the styles to confine, actually take a look at the ideal organizing decisions and afterward click .

Limit changes to specific pieces of a report

To limit changes to a particular region of a common record without making it read-just, select the region to be confined and click Block Authors from the Review tab. The safeguarded region is shown by a ran line and symbol. To fix, click Release All of My Blocked Areas. Changes occur subsequent to saving.

Denoting a Word report as definite makes it read-just and debilitates altering and designing. From the Info choice, click Mark as Final from the Protect Document menu. This choice isn’t planned to be secure whenever utilized alone: in the event that the record isn’t safeguarded in another manner, any client can eliminate the Mark as Final status. Match this choice with other altering limitations if you have any desire to guarantee no further alters are made to the document.

Assuming the record has proactively been limited to peruse just status, stamping as conclusive signs that the proprietor has wrapped up altering the archive and considers it complete.