What types of document protection are supported?

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This article explains what types of document protection are supported in a Word template.

Prerequisites

Supported types of document protection

Restrict Editing

When Restrict Editing is clicked on the Developer tab, the form below is opened:

You can always create a document. If Update document is supported depends on the type of restriction selected:

When Yes, Start Enforcing Protection is clicked, this dialog is shown:

Templafy only supports the protection method Password.

The protection method User authentication is not supported. If you upload a template to the Admin Center with this protection method enabled, the message File contains corrupted data will be shown (because the file is encrypted):

Save As dialog

The 'Save As' dialog from Word also provides the ability to protect a document when General Options is selected:

• The option Password to open (marked red in the General Options form above) is not supported. If you upload a template to the Admin Center with this option enabled, the message File contains corrupted data will be shown as mentioned above.
• When the option Password to modify (marked blue) is enabled then you can upload the template to the Admin Center. However using this option is not recommended, because when a user creates a document a pop-up dialog will be presented to the user (asking for a password) to be able to create the document.

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