You have learned to sign up for Windows Rights Management (WRM) in a previous tutorial. Once you are signed up, you can provide
permissions using WRM from within PowerPoint 2010. In this tutorial you will learn how to revoke permissions, add new permissions, and also
create custom permission levels. For any of the permissions to work, users need to be connected online so that the WRM servers can be accessed
for authentication. So, make sure you are connected online, and thereafter follow these steps:
- We assume you have already set permissions for any presentation that needs to have permissions altered, if you have not set basic permissions,
do explore our
Using Windows Rights Management in PowerPoint 2010 tutorial.
- With your presentation open in PowerPoint 2010, you are now set to alter permission.
Access the File menu, and choose the
Info option to get to Backstage view, as shown in
Figure 1 below. Thereafter, select the Protect Presentation option to bring up a small drop-down menu
(see Figure 1 again).
Figure 1: Protect Presentation drop-down menu
- Now click the Restrict Permission by People option to bring up a sub-menu as shown in Figure 2. Select the
Restricted Access option.
Figure 2: Restricted Access option selected
- This brings up the Permission dialog box with permissions provided to the Windows Live IDs (email addresses) specified in the
Read and Change boxes. To alter, revoke, or customize permissions, click the More Options
button, which has been highlighted in red in Figure 3, below.
Figure 3: More Options button within the Permission dialog box
- This provides advance permission options within the Permission dialog box, as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Advance permission options within the Permission dialog box
All the advanced options within the Permission dialog box, as marked in Figure 4 above are explained below, note
that options D through I are valid for the users selected in the Users box (see option B):
A. Restrict permission to the presentation: This check-box should be always selected as it enables you to change the permission
options. Deselecting this option disables all permissions for the active presentation.
B. The following users have permission to this presentation: Here you can see list of users and their access levels for the
presentation. You have to first select the user in this list for whom you want to change the permissions.
C. Add/Remove buttons: Click the Add button to bring up the Add Users dialog
box, shown in Figure 5. All existing permitted Windows Live IDs are shown here, and you can add more users within the
Read
and Change boxes.
Figure 5: Add Users dialog box
Similarly, you can select any user from the users’ list, and click the Remove button to remove the selected user from the
list.
D. This presentation expires on: Select this check-box to type in a date (or use the calendar flyout, as shown in
Figure 6) to set a specific date for the expiry of the presentation.
Figure 6: Calender flyout
E. Print content: This option enables the selected user to print slides contained within the presentation.
F. Allow users with read access to copy content: Allows the selected user with Read access to copy the presentation content that
can be pasted into another slide, or elsewhere.
G. Access content programmatically: Allows viewing of content within a programming environment.
H. Users can request additional permission from: Here you can set any e-mail ID from which the user can request additional
permission, this typically is your Windows Live ID (if you are the one that has Full Control access, we discuss this later in
this tutorial).
I. Require a connection to verify a user's permission: This needs an online connection to verify credentials, and this option is
typically grayed out.
J. Set Defaults: Clicking this button opens a message window shown in Figure 7. Clicking OK in
this message window will change defaults for Read and Change access levels depending upon which level the selected user is set to. Unless you have a
valid reason to change defaults, it is best to click the Cancel option.
Figure 7: PowerPoint message window
- Additionally, place your mouse cursor over the access level of any selected user to get a downward arrow, click it to bring up a drop-down list
as shown in Figure 8. Choose any option from the drop-down list to change the selected user's access level.
Figure 8: Access Level drop-down list
We have already explored the Read and Change permission levels in this and previous tutorials, setting any user
to the Full Control level is akin to providing that user with the same permission level as the creator of the file, such users can
also provide and alter permission levels for other users.
- Save your presentation often.
