I am, however, having a bit of trouble with this attempt at maintaining my own formatting within Word files that are emailed as attachments to others, or uploaded, which I have no clue about. Great site! I’ve used a few of your tips that were never seen anywhere from the publisher – my favorite so far being the mass removal of all hyperlinks within a selected area. Now follow the steps written above from Step 2 to onward for Word 2010, as the feature of “Restrict Formatting and Editing” is similar in both versions of Word The following “Restrict Formatting and Editing” window will appear besides your document Open your document in Word 2007 then click on “Review” tab > “Protect Document” > “Restrict Formatting and Editing” option It will prompt the following window so click on “Yes” button and that is all

It will ask for password, so enter password which was set before and click “OK” The following screen will display so click on “Stop Protection” button at the bottom

Click on “File” tab > “Info” > “Protect Document” button under “Permissions” and then select “Restrict Document” Simply open your document which is enabled with “Restrict Editing”. Otherwise the above window will display if a reader try to edit any other portion of the document. So the readers can only modify that section of document and could also save that. Now you will observe that selected text which is allowed for editing is highlighted in document. Now “Restrict Formatting and Editing” is enabled for the document Now click on “Yes, Start Enforcing Protection” button to make the change effective, it will ask for Password to protect the document so “Enter new password” and “Reenter password to confirm” and click OK”Ĭlose following window. Now, mark the check box followed by “Everyone” on “Restrict Formatting and Editing” window Now, if you want to give the right to readers to edit some sections of document then first select that section of document so click on the starting point and by pressing left button of mouse drag to the end point. From the list box select any option according to your requirement as we selected “No changes (Read only)” and this will restrict editing Word document completely. Now, have a look on the second option “Editing Restrictions”, so check mark the box followed by “Allow only this type of editing in the document”. The following “Restrict Formatting and Editing” window will appearįirst available option is “Formatting Restrictions, so mark the check box followed by “Limit formatting to selection of styles”and click on settingsįollowing “Formatting Restrictions” window will open where you can select different options according to your requirement and click “OK” button when finish Go to “File” tab then click on “Info” > “Protect Document” button under “Permissions” and there select the option “Restrict Document” Advertisement Restrict Editing in Word 2010

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