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Restricting editing for part or all of a document - Microsoft Word Tutorial
From the course: Word 2013 Essential Training
Restricting editing for part or all of a document
Have you ever shared a document with people, and you wanted to restrict the parts of the document that they should be able to make changes to, and choose parts of the document that would be read-only? We can do that by restricting editing. We're going to do that with our No Obstacles Bio Final2 document here by going to the File tab. With Info selected, we'll go to Protect Document, click there, and then choose Restrict Editing. Now, there are different things we can restrict, like, for example, the selection of styles that they'll be able to use; we talked about that in the styles chapter. But here's where we really want to go, and that is to allow a certain type of editing in the document for various users. So let's click the checkbox first, and then click the dropdown below it to see that we could choose to make it so they can track changes, add comments, fill in forms if we have fields, or make this document read-only, with exceptions. Let's choose a Read only, and then, down…
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