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Protect document options disabled in Powerpoint

Anonymous
2020-05-13T19:17:38+00:00

Wading through the jumbled Msft interfaces to try and come up with best practice to disable non admin editing on select files. When I create a new file from a Sharepoint library, and open it in Ppt, the protect document options are disabled so can't be set.

How do I unlock them so the file creator can lock people from editing files?

Or is there a better way to do this that Msft's chaotic design is hiding from me?

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  1. John Korchok 232.4K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2020-05-19T16:03:08+00:00

    I'm not a SharePoint user, but this article may give you some methods to make a presentation read-only: SharePoint files open as read-only. Or you can protect a file from modification as I mentioned in my first reply. Then  provide a second copy that is editable.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-05-19T02:20:49+00:00

    All I can tell you is the file > info options were disabled until I disabled the protected view options. In such a confused and poorly designed product, it's hard to say for sure what each set of options does. If someone can tell me how best to stop someone from editing a hosted file but allow them to download a local copy that they can edit, I'm all ears! It really shouldn't be this hard.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-05-15T01:44:13+00:00

    Thanks John. Actually Powerpoint does include doc protection. but you have to disable "protected view" in options>trustcenter to enable the doc protection options.

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  4. John Korchok 232.4K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2020-05-15T14:52:38+00:00

    So after disabling those options, how to you protect the document?

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  5. John Korchok 232.4K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2020-05-13T20:31:27+00:00

    PowerPoint does not include document protection as seen in Word or Excel. When using Save As, click on Tools>General Options beside the Save button. Then you can set a password to modify the presentation. This will make the file read-only.

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