Two Enhanced Security Features In Microsoft Office 2010

By Aun | Published: July 14, 2009

Microsoft Office 2010 is getting quite some coverage because of its cool user interface and enhanced features. If you can spare some time to play around with it, you will definitely feel the difference as compared to older versions of MS Office. Today, lets review two important enhanced security features in Office 2010.

Protected Mode:

Every time you will download some document , Microsoft Office 2010 will open it in Protected Mode. It will not allow you to edit the documents unless document editing is enabled. Click  “Enable Editing” option to enabled document editing as shown in the followings screenshot.

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Restrict Editing:

Office 2010 offers yet another enhanced feature called Restrict Editing. You can launch this option from Review menu.

restricted-mode

In Restrict Editing, you can limit formatting to a selection of styles, allow only particular type of editing,  limit users to some specific part of the document etc. Once you have made changes, you can click Start Enforcement Protection button to apply them. You can also disable them later if needed. Following screenshot shows all available options under Restricted Mode.

restrictedformating-and-editing

With these security features, Office 2010 aims to provide security to both publishers and readers. Enjoy!

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  • boe
    Nothing beneficial for most businesses - no reason to upgrade/purchase -

    Like Vista - all bling - no function.

    If they wanted to improve Office they SHOULD have -
    1. Made outlook open multiple e-mail accounts as full exchange -not an additional mailbox with some functionality or pop/imap with very limited functionality but two seperate exchange profiles simultaneously from multiple exchange servers.

    2. Full OLE support for pictures in access - umm wasn't that functional with Office XP - why take that out? Why should someone have to code to add pictures to a personal database? Might was well use oracle or a real database if you are going to have to use code. Adding Office XP photo editor is the work around but why not just add photo editor back into office if that is the solution?

    3. Offer the old menu bar for people (most of my clients) who don't want to learn the new menu bar. You can finally modify the ribbon to some extent in 2010 however my clients just want their old ribbon bar. Frankly I have no issue with the new menu bar but I'm one person and most of my clients don't like it so prefer to stick with office 2003. MS could make money selling the new version if they just offered the old menu as a choice with the new ribbon.
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