


In \word\settings.xml package part it will look like this. Very convenient to prevent undesired changes to the document template, it allows users to edit only certain things in the document or, in read-only mode, disallows editing at all. So what is document protection essentially? Called by Review | Protect Documents | Restrict Formatting and Editing in MS Word 2007, it allows you to set different types of protection, including Readonly, Tracked changes, Comments and Filling in forms. Today I will talk a bit about Word 2007, its new document format DOCX, and its not very clever implementation of an old MS Word feature called Document Protection.
