We've been working on the revision of our employee manual for a while, and now it's all done.…We are done editing.…We are done reviewing.…And we want to make sure that all of the reviewers stop, and no one continues…on in their process.…So we are going to finalize this document.…A couple ways to do that.…I'm going to click File to go Backstage.…And with Info selected, I have choices of different ways to protect my document.…We are going to take a look at Mark as Final first.…You could think of this as protection, ultra-light.…

If I mark my document as final, I'm told that it will be marked and then saved.…I'll click OK, a dialog box that gives you some more information about Mark as Final.…Now, I'll click OK again.…And notice when I am Backstage it says this document has been marked as final…to discourage editing.…If someone else opens this document, which is currently marked Read-Only, or if…I open it again, the Ribbon is hidden, and it says an author has marked this…document as final to discourage editing.…