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How to Send Secure Documents
You can protect a sensitive or confidential document by using a password to help prevent others from changing or even opening your document.
You can help prevent unauthorized users from opening a document or from modifying a document even if they have permission to open it. You can also protect your document by specifying how or whether others can leave feedback.
Protect your document from being opened or edited:
- Click Review > Protect Document.
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Under Security, you can select whether to enter a password to open the document, modify the document, or both. Enter each password again to confirm.
- Passwords are case-sensitive and can be a maximum of 15 characters long.
- If you lose or forget your password, Word won't be able to recover it for you. Be sure to keep the a copy of the password in a safe place or create a strong password that you’ll remember.
- Click OK.
- Click Review > Protect Document.
- Under Protection, select Protect document for.
- Do one of the following.
To
Do this:
Keep Tracked Changes on.
Click Tracked changes
Allow people to add comments.
Click Comments
Prevent people from making changes.
Click Read only
Restrict changes to forms, so people can fill out the form without accidentally changing the form itself.
Click Forms - To prevent people from changing the protection settings, type a password in the Password box.
- Click OK when you're finished.