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Preventing others from changing your TextEdit documents

To protect your TextEdit documents from being changed, you can make them “read-only.” This is useful for documents such as “Read Me” files, license agreements, and any other documents you don’t want the reader to be able to edit.

To mark a TextEdit document as read-only:

Open the document in TextEdit and choose Format > Prevent Editing.

To make changes to a read-only TextEdit document that you own:

Open the document and choose Format > Allow Editing.

You can also control access to your document by locking it or by setting permissions for it.


Related Topics

Locking documents

Setting permissions