Permission object (Office)

The Permission property of the Document object in Microsoft Word, a Workbook object in Microsoft Excel, and a Presentation object in Microsoft PowerPoint returns a Permission object.

Remarks

Use the Permission object to restrict permissions to the active document and to return or set specific permissions settings.

The Permission object gives access to a collection of UserPermission objects. Use the UserPermission object to associate specific sets of rights with individual users. While some permissions granted through the user interface (such as msoPermissionPrint) apply to all users, you can use the UserPermission object to assign them on a per-user basis with per-user expiration dates.

Microsoft Office Information Rights Management supports the use of administrative permission policies that list users and groups and their document permissions. Use the ApplyPolicy method to apply a permission policy, and the PermissionFromPolicy, PolicyName, and PolicyDescription properties to return policy information.

The Permission object model is available whether permissions are restricted on the active document or not. The Permission property of the Document, Workbook, and Presentation objects does not return Nothing when the active document does not have restricted permissions. Use the Enabled property to determine whether a document has restricted permissions.

Use of the Permission object raises an error when the Windows Rights Management client is not installed.

Example

The following example returns information about the permissions settings on the active document.

Dim irmPermission As Office.Permission 
 Dim strIRMInfo As String 
 Set irmPermission = ActiveWorkbook.Permission 
 If irmPermission.Enabled Then 
 strIRMInfo = "Permissions are restricted on this document." & vbCrLf 
 strIRMInfo = strIRMInfo & " View in trusted browser: " & _ 
 irmPermission.EnableTrustedBrowser & vbCrLf & _ 
 " Document author: " & irmPermission.DocumentAuthor & vbCrLf & _ 
 " Users with permissions: " & irmPermission.Count & vbCrLf & _ 
 " Cache licenses: " & irmPermission.StoreLicenses & vbCrLf & _ 
 " Request permission URL: " & irmPermission.RequestPermissionURL & vbCrLf 
 If irmPermission.PermissionFromPolicy Then 
 strIRMInfo = strIRMInfo & " Permissions applied from policy:" & vbCrLf & _ 
 " Policy name: " & irmPermission.PolicyName & vbCrLf & _ 
 " Policy description: " & irmPermission.PolicyDescription 
 Else 
 strIRMInfo = strIRMInfo & " Default permissions applied." & vbCrLf & _ 
 " Default policy name: " & irmPermission.PolicyName & vbCrLf & _ 
 " Default policy description: " & irmPermission.PolicyDescription 
 End If 
 Else 
 strIRMInfo = "Permissions are NOT restricted on this document." 
 End If 
 MsgBox strIRMInfo, vbInformation + vbOKOnly, "IRM Information" 
 Set irmPermission = Nothing

See also

• Permission object members
• Object Model Reference

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