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Prevent Recipients Printing and Downloading Shared Nexus365 OneDrive Documents

When you share an Office document on your Nexus365 OneDrive you can prevent people from downloading or printing the document. This shows you how to do this.

Please note: this isn't, currently, available for sharing folders or other document types such as PDF.

Share document

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To share a document:

  1. Select the document
  2. Click the Share link

 

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Click the People specify can edit link.

 

Remove permission to print and download

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  1. Uncheck the Allow editing box
  2. Switch Block download on
  3. Click Apply

Send the sharing link

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Enter the names of the people you would like to share the document with, and click the Send button. (You also have the option to enter a message to the recipients or to send the link via Outlook.)

 

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When the recipient opens the file they will see that download and printing rights have been removed.