How To Protect Excel or Word From Editing?- office.com/setup
                     How To Protect Excel or Word From 
Editing?- office.com/setup
Microsoft Office is the widely known software which 
includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook etc. This 
software is used for homes as well as for business 
purpose. You can install this MS Office software in your 
device through www.office.com/setup Activate Office 
Product Key. Through this software you can manage, 
store and share documents with other people easily. It 
provides cloud computing technology to the user. With 
this cloud technology, you can save the document online 
and can access anywhere anytime. 
People usually share their documents and invite others 
people so that they can work together on a single 
project. But sometimes, people just want other people to
look at their work but do not edit their work. Because 
others can add any misleading data in it which you do 
not want. Hence, Office version has given their users to 
restrict their other customer from editing their work. 
How to Prevent a user from editing in Word?
First you have to open a Word document which you do 
not want others to edit. Now, you have to click on the 
‘File’ option. After this, you have to tap on the ‘Info’ 
option. Here you have to go to the right hand side of the 
page. Then you have to click on the menu “Protect” 
document. Now you have to select the option ‘Restrict 
Editing’. Here you have to tick-mark the box which allows
you to limit formatting and then just choose ‘Settings’. 
When you clear the styles which you wish to prevent and
then you have to click on ‘OK’ button. When you make 
the changes, just check the box which is next to “Allow 
only this type of editing”. From the drop-down menu, 
just make the changes for the following like No changes 
(Read-only), Tracked changes, Comments and Filling in 
forms. After this, you have to select the part of the word 
document which you do not want to restrict and others 
can easily edit it. Now, go to the ‘Exceptions’ section. In 
this, you can easily select a person or a group of people 
who can edit the document. Here in the “Start 
enforcement” section, you should select ‘Yes’ option. 
After this, you have to select the ‘Password’ option and 
then click on ‘OK’ button. This process will block users to 
edit or make changes in your document.
How to Prevent a user from editing in Excel?
First you should open an Excel document or worksheet. 
Then you have to tap on the ‘File’ menu, and after this, 
click on ‘Info’ option. Now you have to go to the right 
hand side of the page which opens up. After this, you 
should hit on the ‘Protect Workbook’ menu and then 
select the ‘Protect current sheet’ option. You can also set
a password to unlock the sheet. Then you have to tick-
mark the box which is next to ‘Protect worksheet and 
contents of locked cells’. Here from the edits list, you can
select which users can edits and then you have to click 
on ‘OK’ button. Now you have to re-enter the password 
for confirmation and then just click on ‘OK’ button. Here 
you have to Save the settings which you have made and 
the users can make changes according to the applied 
changes. 
This method will restrict users from edit in Word and 
Excel. If you want any kind of help, then you can visit to 
the site of MS Office via office.com/setup home and 
student 2016. 
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