Tips to prevent Copy and edit Word documents

In fact, for some reason, you do not want others to copy and edit your text, now you can use the anti-copy feature and edit text in Word files easily to prevent block copying.

This feature must be familiar with PDF files, but in Microsoft Word people rarely use this feature. So WebTech360 will guide you to implement this feature to protect your documents.

This tutorial will be suitable for Word 2007, Word 2010, Word 2013 and Word 2016 versions, basically this operation is the same on the versions mentioned above. To prevent Copy and edit Word files, we do the following:

+ Step 1:  Open the Word file that you want to set the anti-copy property and edit the text on.

+ Step 2:  You click  Review >Restrict Editing

Tips to prevent Copy and edit Word documents

+ Step 3.  A dialog box appears on the right side of your text page. and you can set some of the following parameters to suit your needs

Tips to prevent Copy and edit Word documents

  • Formatting Restrictions: Restrict text formatting.
    • Limit formatting to a selection of sltyes: Limit the selection of styles
    • Setting: Click Setting to set the format restrictions

Tips to prevent Copy and edit Word documents

  • Editing Restrictions : Restrict text editing.
    • Allow only this type of editing in the document: If you select this option, Microsoft Word allows you to choose which styles the user can be allowed to edit.Tips to prevent Copy and edit Word documents
    • Exceptions (Optional): Exceptions – This section allows you to select who or what parts of the document are allowed to edit.

After the setup is complete, click select Tips to prevent Copy and edit Word documentsto start protecting your documents

+ Step 4:  You will see a table for you to enter a password to make sure no one can copy and edit the text on your word file.

Tips to prevent Copy and edit Word documents

Note: To remove the anti-copy and text editing feature, you do the same thing as when installing (Review > Restrict Editing) . Then click then enter the password to lock. Stop Protection Tips to prevent Copy and edit Word documents

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