


You can select the styles that you want to be allowed in the document. This setting limits formatting to a certain selection of formats or styles. Start Enforcement 1] Formatting Restrictions.The Restrict Editing dialog box will open. In the Review tab, ‘Protect’ group, click on ‘Restrict Editing’ as shown in the image. In this case, I have selected Sentences 1 and 2 only. Select the sentences that you do not want the restrict editing feature to be applied. To begin with, open the MS Word document and click on the ‘Review’ tab. You also have an option to protect the entire document and make it Read-Only.

The unrestricted parts in the document can be made available to anyone, or you can allow permission to certain users only to edit or make changes. Protect Word document using Restrict Editing This is how one can protect the content present in an MS Word document. Restrict Editing locks certain lines or sentences in the document, which could be important or sensitive, and thus, cannot be edited by anyone. This feature enables you to mark the document as ‘ Read Only ‘ and still allows edits or changes to the certain selected parts of the document. This tutorial will teach you how to protect the entire or parts of your Microsoft Word document by using this feature called ‘ Restrict Editing ‘.
