How To Unlock A Word Document?Īfter protecting a word document, whenever you open your file it will prompt you for password. The selected portions of your file get protected.

Provide a password of your choice to protect the file and click on ‘Ok’ to proceed. Clicking on the option will appear a dialog box on your screen as shown below: Else the option is a non mandatory field you can leave it as it is.įinally click on ‘Yes, Start Enforcing Protection’ to protect the word documents. The portion left unselected will get protected.Ĭhoose “Everyone” option provided under Exceptional (Optional) tab if you want to protect it from everyone. You can use Control key to select the multiple portions of text. Now move to the text part of the word file and select the portion of text which you don’t want to protect. Enable option ‘Allow only this type of editing in this document’ and select option ‘No Changes (Read Only)’ from the list of options. Under review tab go to Protect > Then click on ‘Restrict Editing’ option.Ĭlicking on ‘Restrict Editing’ option will provide two options one as ‘Formatting restrictions’ and another is ‘Editing restrictions’. Open MS Word file and go to ‘Review’ tab (The following screenshot is valid for MS Word 2010). There is also a second method to lock word files in MS Word which is as follows: Click on ‘Ok’ to complete the process of locking word files. And at the same time provide a password to “Password To Modify” option to restrict users to alter any content of Word files. Now provide a password to “Password To Open” field that will restrict users to open MS Word files. When you will click on General Options, a new dialogue box will open and prompt you two fields i.e. Now a dialogue box appears on your screen, click on “Tools” option provided at the bottom left part of the dialogue box.Ĭlicking on ‘Tools’ option will provide you list of options, choose ‘General Options’ from the list and proceed further. Let us tell you how, open the document that you want to lock and click on ‘Save As’ option. By doing this whenever user tries to open the word file, MS Word will prompt for password to open respective file. Users can protect the word files data by applying a password to them.

The following segment of this guide will help you to rightly perform the process of locking Word files as well as unlocking word files. For such scenarios MS Word itself provides a brilliant opportunity for users to lock and unlock the word files so that data cannot be altered or misused by any unauthorized users. Sometimes few of those files carry sensitive information and thus require to be protected.

MS Word documents are widely used to store vital information of users.

How to unlock a protected word document