Next to the document, a little window should pop up. Switch to the Review tab and then hit the Protect Document button to bring up a small menu.įrom that menu, choose Restrict Formatting and Editing. If you are still not able to edit the document, it may be protected. After that, the icon will nowĪppear unhighlighted and the icon will be gone from the status bar.
“un-finalized.” Go back to the Office button -> Prepare menu andĬlick “Mark as Final” to toggle it off. In order to make changes, the document just needs to be Sub-menu you will also notice a small version of the same icon at the (grammar) squiggles under words go away as well as any marked changesīesides the ‘Mark as Final’ icon being highlighted in the Prepare This also makes the red (spelling) and green Mark your document as final before you send it off to others for It won’t allow any changes to the document. This means that it is enabled and the document is “finalized.” Sub-menu, you’ll see an icon next to ‘Mark as Final’ highlighted in The top-left corner) and go down to the Prepare sub-menu. The rest of that error message also points us in the right direction.Ĭlick on the Office button (the circle with the office logo on it in This command is not availableīecause the document is marked as final.” The Paste button under the Home tab, you’ll get this error message: You will also be unable to paste into the document.
You how to make your document editable again. Is locked.”, this article should answer your question ‘why’ and tell Other products in the Office suite whenever you try to change theĭocument saying “This modifications is not allowed because the selection If you’re getting a message at the bottom of Word 2007, Word 2010, or
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