

The only thing they can do is add comments, which you can later review and act upon as desired. The only difference is that they cannot change anything in the document. With this type of protection turned on, people can still load and read the document.

Click the Protect Document tool within the Protect group.

If this type of document protection appeals to you, follow these steps: Word includes the ability to protect your document so that only you can make changes to it everyone else must add their changes by adding annotations or comments.
