Word 2016 Tracking Changes Explained

Word 2016

Lesson 2 – Protecting a Document

Select the Stop Protection button in the Restrict Editing task pane, type password into the Unprotect Document dialog box, and select OK .

R ESTRICTING D OCUMENT E DITING  D ISCUSSION

While you are working with coworkers on a document, you may want to prevent changes to the document content by applying editing restrictions. Select these restrictions from the Editing restrictions section of the Restrict Editing task pane. Apply one of four types of restrictions including allowing only changes made with change tracking on, allowing only comments, allowing only forms to be filled in or, not allowing any changes at all.

After selecting editing restrictions, start enforcing them. Protect a document with or without a password.

If the editing restrictions are set to allow only tracked editing, the protected document opens with change tracking enabled. If the document is restricted to allow only comments or no changes, the Restrict Editing task pane opens when a user tries to make a change that is not allowed. The task pane contains an explanation of your restrictions in the document. It may also include buttons to find the next region you can edit or it may select all regions you can edit.

Remove protection from a document by selecting the Stop Protection button in the Restrict Editing task pane and entering the password, if prompted.

Restrict editing for a document

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