We’ll show you how to password protect your document. Once your document is close to the final state, you can mark it as final to avoid making inadvertent changes.Īslo, you may want to limit access to your document to include only your team of reviewers. In this lesson, we’ll show you how to restrict the formatting and types of editing other reviewers can perform on your document. The whole point of doing this is to make sure your document cannot be altered in such a way that doesn’t comply with your vision or style.
Versioning, Comparing, and Combining DocumentsĮven though you might want other reviewers to suggest changes and make comments to a document, there may be times when you want to restrict them from making editing and changing the formatting.įurther, you may want to force all change tracking or limit reviewers to only commenting. Restricting and Protecting Documents and Templates. Using Comments to Indicate Changes in a Document. Keeping Track of Changes Made to a Document. Using Templates to Ensure Common Layout and Formatting. There you have three quick ways to lock your files on Microsoft Teams. Now, select Edit User Permissions and change the permission type from Edit to Read. Select Members group and Stop Inheriting Permissions. Then select Permissions for this document library. Click on Documents and then click on the gear icon. Most likely, you’re not authorized to edit SharePoint settings. ⇒ Note: If your Teams account is managed by an organization, contact your IT department. Method 3 – Edit SharePoint User Permissions Simply put, the respective user category can only view the files. To lock those files for a specific user category, use the down-arrow and select Can view. Select the folder you just created and click on the three dots. Of course, you can name it whatever you want. Let’s name this folder ‘ Locked Files‘. Connect to SharePoint and click on New → Folder. In this manner, you can quickly manage the access permissions for all those files and lock them for certain user categories. You can then store all the files you want to lock in that specific folder. Method 2 – Create a Separate SharePoint FolderĪnother method to lock your Teams files consists of creating a separate folder in SharePoint. In other words, you’re the only one who can edit it. The respective file has been checked out to your account. Click on Files and hover your mouse cursor over the file you want to lock. 
As long as that file is checked out to you, no one else will be able to edit it. If you don’t want all the team members to edit the file, you can use the Check out option. How to Lock Files in Microsoft Teams Method 1 – Check Out the File
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