One will have to provide this password to modify the document.

Under the options Password, enter a new password to protect the document.

Start Enforcing Protection dialog box appears. Click the button Yes, Start Enforcing Protection.Select the option No changes (Read only) option.

Now in the Restrict Formatting and Editing task pane, under the section Editing Restriction, select the check box Allow only this type of editing in the document and the restriction type drop down gets enabled.

On the right hand pane, click the check box Show Developer Tab in the Ribbon. Click Popular from the menu list on the left. From the bottom of the menu, click the Word Options button. Note: In case, the Developer tab is not available in the Ribbon, you can enable it from Word Options. The Restrict Formatting and Editing task pane appears on the right hand side.

From the drop-down menu, click Restrict Formatting and Editing.

Under the tab Developer, within the group Protect, click Protect Document.

The Protect Document feature available under the Developer tab enables you to hard protect a document. All the tabs in the Ribbon are disabled.Īgain, this is not a strong security feature, as anyone can remove restrictions by deselecting the Read-only check box from the right-click menu. Now, if you open the document, you can view Read-only marked along with the document name in the title bar. You can double-click the document by holding the ALT key to the open the Properties dialog box.

In the dialog box, under the tab General, click the check box Read-only.

You can make a document read-only to prevent accidental modification of the content. Mark as Final is not a strong security feature to protect a document, as the restriction can be removed easily by clicking again on Mark as Final.Ģ) Make a document read-only (soft protection)

Typing in the document is disabled as well. This feature disables all the tabs in the Ribbon. You can mark a final version of a document as Final to protect it from unintentional changes to the content. 1) Mark a document as Final (soft protection)

Edit protection from word document