If someone stumbled on this post like me trying to do Protect/Unprotect in Powershell with the option “Filling in Forms” to prevent users from editing the content outside the fillable areas, I am adding the code that worked for me:

$ProtectionType = [Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdProtectionType]::wdAllowOnlyFormFields

$objWord = New-Object -comobject Word.Application
$objDoc = $objWord.Documents.Open("E:\Files\WordDocument.docx") $objDoc.Activate();
$objDoc.Unprotect();

/// do what you need to do

$objDoc.Protect($ProtectionType,$True);

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If someone stumbled on this post like me trying to do Protect/Unprotect in Powershell with the option “Filling in Forms” to prevent users from editing the content outside the fillable areas, I am adding the code that worked for me:

$ProtectionType = [Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdProtectionType]::wdAllowOnlyFormFields

$objWord = New-Object -comobject Word.Application
$objDoc = $objWord.Documents.Open("E:\Files\WordDocument.docx") $objDoc.Activate();
$objDoc.Unprotect();

/// do what you need to do

$objDoc.Protect($ProtectionType);

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