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: 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. And at the same time provide a password to “Password To Modify” option to restrict users to alter any content of Word files. Click on ‘Ok’ to complete the process of locking word files. There is also a second method to lock word files in MS Word which is as follows: Open MS Word file and go to ‘Review’ tab (The following screenshot is valid for MS Word 2010). Under review tab go to Protect > Then click on ‘Restrict Editing’ option.