Ever thought of yourself as controlling? No? After this course, that might change. And it won't be a bad thing, either, because controlling how others view and work with your Word documents is a great way to ensure that when you distribute a document, it's communicating everything you do want and nothing you don't. For example, maybe you don't want people to print and distribute a document, or perhaps you want to prevent a reviewer from changing heading styles or other formatting.

Using the Protect Document task pane, Information Rights Management, and security settings will help give you that control.

To learn more about this course, read the overview information or the table of contents in the left column. When you're done reading this page, click Next to start the first lesson.

Note    This course is about how you can control the ways that you and others access and work with your documents. To learn how you can secure your documents against malicious interference, see the course Help protect yourself: Security in Office.