How to unlock footer in word
How To Lock & Protect The Header & Footer In Word
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hello in this lesson I'm going to show
you how it's possible to lock and
protect the header and footer sections
in Microsoft Word
so that although people can edit and
change the main part of the document
they're unable to change or edit or
remove the header or the footer from
your document so you'll see that in this
document here if I try to edit the
header section I was on text and I've
got a picture up here I can double click
that section and enter it I can
highlight that text but if I try typing
anything in it doesn't work so I've
highlighted that I'm trying to type as
you can probably hear on the keyboard it
doesn't work I can click on the picture
and press Delete or backspace again that
doesn't work I can try and change the
size of that image again it doesn't work
so that header section is completely
locked out and yet if I want to I can
type anything I want in the rest of the
document so the rest of the document is
completely editable and I can then save
it and do what I want with that but the
header and indeed if I wanted to the
footer as well would be completely
protected so let's see how it's possible
to do this so here is a document here
that I've not protected in anywhere at
all so I can obviously type anything I
like in the header section I can delete
the image so that's all unprotected at
the moment so step one what we have to
do is put a break in between the header
section and the beginning of the
document the part that we want the user
to edit so if we just press ctrl home
that takes us right to the very
beginning of this document but after the
header of course and then we need to go
to layout
and then to the breaks section I want to
do is click on continuous so that
inserts a section break so it then
defines the beginning part of our
document that the user is then able to
edit so we click on continuous now this
just put a little space above this and
we can see if we click on the Home tab
and then click on the little and show or
hide paragraph mark button there and
we've got this section break here you
can simply highlight that and then
change the font size to one which pretty
much removes that from being visible so
we have a section break in there it's
not visible but we've now split our
document into two sections all this
that's above it in the header and then
everything else below which we're going
to allow the user to edit so once we put
the section break in they can the
continuous section break the next point
is to go up to the file tab and then
click on protect document come down to
the restrict editing option this opens a
tab on the right-hand side of your
document now and in the second option
here editing restrictions you want to
tick the box that says allow only this
type of editing in the document and from
the drop-down list what I'm going to
change that
it's simply no changes read-only of
course if you have forms completed in
there you might decide to use that but
for the moment we'll stick to simply no
changes so at the moment the if we apply
this the user won't be able to make any
changes at all to any part of the
document now that's not quite what we
want because although we want to lock
the header and the footer we don't want
to lock this middle section here the
main part of the document so what I'm
going to do is come down to this
exceptions section here which says
select part of the document and choose
users who are allowed
to freely edit them so we've got our
section break just above this title so
I'm simply going to click here and then
we can simply highlight the part of the
document we want to allow editing which
is all of it so right from the beginning
this is just below that section break if
you remember so from here right down to
the end you can press control-shift
end-of-course to highlight the whole
document from the beginning and then
we'll just click in this box that says
everyone what that does is allow
everyone editing parts to this exception
that we've just chosen if I click off
that you can see there's a little square
bracket at the left-hand side of that
section now and you might also be able
to tell there's very slight light
graying behind that text as well to show
us of that section could be edited now
the final thing we have to do is come
down to step 3
start enforcement so if you're ready to
apply that level of protection then we
can simply click this yes start
enforcing protection it'll ask you for a
password of course you don't need to put
a password in there but if you don't
then it means that anybody can simply go
back through this step that you've done
here and undo what you've chosen so it's
best to put a password in obviously a
better password than whatever I'm using
there but this just shows you how it
works if I click OK then this document
is now locked so if I highlight the
title here I can still type whatever I
want and I can highlight text here and
again type whatever I want so that is
still editable if I come up to the
header section I double click on it yes
I can go into the header section but if
I try to change anything in here if I
try typing or pressing backspace or
deleting it or dragging it
nothing works if I click on the picture
and I try
delete or I tried to change the size
again nothing works so we have
completely locked our head of section
yet still people are able to edit the
main part of the document so I hope that
made it clear if you have any questions
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