Title: How To Lock And Unlock A Word Document: Explained Here - SysTools Blog
Headings: How To Lock And Unlock A Word Document: Explained Here
How To Lock And Unlock A Word Document: Explained Here
How To Lock MS Word Files?
How To Unlock A Word Document?
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Content: For such scenarios MS Word itself provides a brilliant opportunity for users to lock and unlock the word files so that data cannot be altered or misused by any unauthorized users. The following segment of this guide will help you to rightly perform the process of locking Word files as well as unlocking word files. How To Lock MS Word Files? Users can protect the word files data by applying a password to them. By doing this whenever user tries to open the word file, MS Word will prompt for password to open respective file. Let us tell you how, open the document that you want to lock and click on ‘Save As’ option. Now a dialogue box appears on your screen, click on “Tools” option provided at the bottom left part of the dialogue box. Clicking on ‘Tools’ option will provide you list of options, choose ‘General Options’ from the list and proceed further. When you will click on General Options, a new dialogue box will open and prompt you two fields i.e. Password to open and Password to modify. Now provide a password to “Password To Open” field that will restrict users to open MS Word files.