Microsoft word protect

Type a password, then type it again to confirm it. Save the file to make sure the password takes effect. Click OK. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Michael P. Why do you continue to try to blow wind life into a dead and useless animal? As useless as it might appear, please you too, do complain directly to Microsoft. How do I protect a word document from others to edit it, but not using a password. Can you lock the letter and signature without having to put in a password.

Also even when I put and ab Legacy, this does not seem to work as it expands the table. How can I make the table not expanding? In the second example "Lock part of documents in Word" the third step appears to be weak. Anyone with access to the Developer tab that is, everyone can simply open Content Control Properties dialog box and uncheck the "Content control cannot be deleted" and "Contents cannot be edited" options, even when the document has been restricted.

The would defeat any attempt to protect parts of the document. Did you find a workaround to this problem? You can put a password protection on this after locking the sections you want to disable editing.

Click on Restrict editing in the Developer tab, click option 2 Editing restrictions and select Filling in forms in the drop down box. Then click on "Yes, Start Enforcing Protection". From there you should have an option to put in a password. To be able to unlock and edit the person would need to go back into the Restrict Editing tab, click on Stop Protection at the bottom right corner and provide the password.

To prevent users from deleting the control, set LockContentControl to True. Set the LockContents property of the content control to true to prevent users from editing the control, and set the LockContentControl property to true to prevent users from deleting the control. The following code example demonstrates using the LockContents and LockContentControl properties of two different RichTextContentControl objects in a document-level project.

You can prevent users from changing an area of a document by putting the area in a GroupContentControl. This is useful in the following scenarios:. You want to protect an area that already contains content controls, but the text or other items that you want to protect are not in the content controls.

If you create a GroupContentControl that contains embedded content controls, the embedded content controls are not automatically protected.

To prevent users from editing an embedded content control, use the LockContents property of the control. In the document that is hosted in the Visual Studio designer, select the area that you want to protect.

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