For this, you have to click on “Stop Protection”, that shows up at the bottom of the sidebar when you open such a protected document, and type the correct password. ![]() The password is required only if you want to edit the document. Users can still open and read the document without knowing the password. Enter the password and save the document.Click the button “Yes, start enforcing protection” and you will prompted for a password.Make sure the drop down menu is selected as “read only”. Check the box under “Editing restrictions”.A sidebar will appear on the right with “Protect Document” options.From the Tools menu select Protect Document (you never noticed it, right?).Open the document you want to make read only.But did you know that there are all kinds of security features built into Microsoft Word, and that it allows creation of Word documents that prevent users from editing it either completely or partially? That feature exist since Microsoft Word 2003 and an extra feature was introduced in Word 2007. ![]() A lot of users prefer PDF documents over Word documents because they are read-only by nature, and hence tamper proof.
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