Restrict permission to content in a file

Important

To restrict permission to content in a file, you have to have Microsoft Office for Mac Standard 2011.

Information Rights Management (IRM) allows authors to restrict permission for documents, workbooks, and presentations on a per-person or per-group basis. For example, Ranjit, the author, can give Helena permission to read a document but not change it. Ranjit can also give Bobby permission to change the document and allow him to save the document. Authors always have Full Control permission.

IRM provides three permission levels.

Permission Level

Allows

Read

Read

Change

Read, edit, copy, save changes

Full Control

Read, edit, copy, save changes, print, set expiration dates for content, grant permissions to users, access content programmatically

Do any of the following:

Set permission levels manually

Use a template to restrict permission

Change or remove permission levels that you have set

Set an expiration date for a restricted file

Allow people with Change or Read permission to print content

Allow people with Read permission to copy content

Allow scripts to run in a restricted file

Require a connection to verify permissions

Remove restrictions