Open a Document for Read-only Access

What is this page about?

This page explains how to open a Word document with read-only access using different loading approaches.

Sometimes you want to open a document to inspect or retrieve some information, and you want to do so in such a way that the document remains unchanged. In these instances, you want to open the document as read-only.

Aspose.Words

Aspose.Words has the public class WriteProtection that specifies write protection settings for a document. Make a document read-only to restrict editing by using the ReadOnlyRecommended property and the SetPassword method.

The following code example shows how to make your document read-only:

Open XML SDK

You can also do the same using the Open XML SDK. At the same time, note that it looks somewhat more complicated and more cumbersome.

The code sample below shows how you can add some text and attempt to save the changes to show that access is read-only. Once you have access to the body of the main document part, you add text by adding instances of the Paragraph, Run, and Text classes. This generates the required WordprocessingML markup.

The following code example shows how to make your document read-only:

You can download the sample file of this example from Aspose.Words GitHub.

For more information about Aspose.Words features please visit Open a Document Read-Only.