IBM Lotus Symphony


Protecting Content in Lotus Symphony Documents

The following is an overview of the different ways of protecting contents in Lotus® Symphony™ Documents from being modified, deleted or viewed.

Protecting Sections in Lotus Symphony Documents

Any section of a Lotus Symphony Documents Lotus Symphony document can be protected against changes with a password.

Warning Icon This protection is not intended to be a secure protection. It is just a switch to protect the section against accidental changes.
Table 1. Protecting sections
Task Description
Turning on protection Select the text. Choose Create - Section - Section, then under Write protection mark the Protect and With password check boxes. (If the section already exists: Layout - Sections.) Enter and confirm a password of at least 5 characters.
Turning off protection Choose Layout - Sections - Section and under Write protection clear the Protect check box. Enter the correct password.

Protecting Cells in a Lotus Symphony Documents Table

You can protect the contents of individual cells of a Lotus Symphony Documents text table from changes.

Warning Icon This protection is not intended to be a secure protection. It is just a switch to protect the cells against accidental changes.
Table 2. Protecting cells
Task Description
Turning on protection Place the cursor in a cell or select cells. Right-click to open the context menu, then choose Cell - Protect.
Turning off protection

Place the cursor in the cell or select the cells. First, if necessary, choose File - Preferences - Symphony - Lotus Symphony Documents - Formatting Aids and mark Cursor in protected areas - Enable. Then right-click the cell to open the context menu, choose Cell - Unprotect.

Select the table in the Navigator, open the context menu and select Table - Unprotect.

Use Shift+Ctrl+T to remove protection for the entire current table or all selected tables.

Automatic Protection of Indexes and Tables

Tables of contents and indexes created automatically in a Lotus Symphony Documents text are automatically protected against accidental changes.

Warning Icon This protection is not intended to be a secure protection. It is just a switch to protect the contents against accidental changes.
Table 3. Protecting indexes and tables
Task Description
Turning on protection

Place the cursor in the index/table of contents.

Turning off protection

Place the cursor in the index. First of all, if necessary, under File - Preferences - Symphony - Lotus Symphony Documents - Formatting Aids , mark Cursor in protected areas - Enable.

From the context menu choose Edit Index/Table. On the Index/Table tab page, unmark Protected against manual changes.

In the Navigator, select the index, then open the context menu in the Navigator and select Index - Read-only.


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