Protecting Word documents Leave feedback
Since version 18.6, GroupDocs.Watermark provides a simplified way of protecting the Word documents with the password. The API allows you to protect as well as unprotect the Word documents. The following protection types are supported:
AllowOnlyRevisions: user can only add revision marks to the document.
AllowOnlyComments: user can only modify comments in the document.
AllowOnlyFormFields: user can only enter data in the form fields in the document.
ReadOnly: no changes are allowed to the document.
The protection types are added to the WordProcessingProtectionType enum. Following code samples demonstrate how to protect and unprotect Word documents.
Following code sample protects a Word document with the password.
advanced_usage.add_watermarks_to_word_processing.WordProcessingProtectDocument
WordProcessingLoadOptions loadOptions = new WordProcessingLoadOptions();
// Specify an absolute or relative path to your document. Ex: "C:\\Docs\\document.docx"
Watermarker watermarker = new Watermarker("document.docx", loadOptions);
WordProcessingContent content = watermarker.getContent(WordProcessingContent.class);
content.protect(WordProcessingProtectionType.ReadOnly, "7654321");
watermarker.save("document.docx");
watermarker.close();
The following code sample shows how to unprotect a Word document regardless of password.
advanced_usage.add_watermarks_to_word_processing.WordProcessingUnProtectDocument
WordProcessingLoadOptions loadOptions = new WordProcessingLoadOptions();
// Specify an absolute or relative path to your document. Ex: "C:\\Docs\\document.docx"
Watermarker watermarker = new Watermarker("document.docx", loadOptions);
WordProcessingContent content = watermarker.getContent(WordProcessingContent.class);
content.unprotect();
watermarker.save("document.docx");
watermarker.close();
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