hi there in this tutorial I'm going to
show you how to set up your word
document so that only parts of the
document remain editable once you've
protected it so your first step once
you've opened the document is to go to
the review tab on your ribbon and then
go over to the restrict editing button
click on that and you get the restrict
editing task pane in section 2 of this
task pane there's a little checkbox
which allows only certain types of
editing make sure that's checked and
then in the drop-down list that relates
this option you leave the default no
changes read-only there are four options
in their track changes comets filling in
false but we need to leave the default
no changes read-only the next thing you
do is you select the areas of the
document you want to remain editable so
there could be paragraphs words or
sentences once you select the first a
sentence to select subsequent paragraphs
or sentences that are not contiguous you
hold down ctrl so I'm holding that ctrl
and then I'll select my next sentence
I'll just do one more so those are the
three areas of the document that I want
to remain editable on such select of
those areas all I need to do is check
this checkbox next to everyone which
means that everyone who opens this
document can edit those parts of the
document if you need to be more specific
in terms of who can edit the document
you need to go to the more users link
and then this dialog box you would list
all the users on your work network that
you want to be able to edit this
document edit only the parts that you've
selected if you have multiple users that
you want to include in this list
separate those names with a semicolon
I'm just going to cancel out of that
now we're ready to start enforcing
protection so all I do is click on this
yes start enforcing protection button
and you're prompted to enter a password
we're not
to do that here but it would be good
idea in a real situation that you did
enter a password really click on ok now
you can see on my word document word is
clearly identified for me or for any
other users which areas I can edit i've
got square brackets and yellow
background behind the text if you're in
a very large document and you want to
easily skip to areas that you can edit
use this button here fine next region I
can edit if you need to stop protection
that's pretty easy you've just got a
stop protection button down here and
that's pretty much all I need to tell
you thanks very much for listening and
hopefully that's been helpful