Special Edition Using Microsoft® Word 2000

Limiting the Changes Users Can Make

You may want to allow a document to be edited, but limit the types of changes that can be made—thereby making it easier to review or use the document later. With Word's Protect Document feature, you can limit users to any one of the following:

• Tracked changes. Users can only make revisions that are tracked by Word's Track Changes feature.

• Comments. Users can only add comments to a document, using Word's Comments tool.

• Forms. Users can only fill in the blanks in electronic forms, but cannot change any other aspects of the form.

To protect a document for any of these elements, follow these steps:

1. Choose Tools, Protect Document (see Figure 30.10).

2. Select the element for which you want to protect the document. ...