Securing Documents

In addition to managing hidden data, you might have documents to which you want to control access or editing rights.

Although you can, as always, save a Microsoft Office document with a password or set a document as read-only, security options today are far more sophisticated, with better protection and more options. Following is a brief summary of options available to help secure your content in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Restricting Permission to Your Documents

Depending on which of the 2007 Office release edition you own, you may be able to use Information Rights Management (IRM) to allow only specified individuals to access a document. Using IRM, you can assign unique rights to each user, including restricting the ability ...

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