2007 Microsoft® Office System Step by Step, Second Edition

Setting Permissions in the Files Tool

As we discussed in Chapter 25, each member of a workspace has a role, and each workspace role has specific permissions that control what members with that role can do. You can also set permissions for each tool in a workspace to control which actions members with a specific role can perform when working with the content of that tool. For example, you might want to grant workspace members with the Guest role the permission to add files to the Files tool and modify the files they add, but retain their restriction to not modify files added by other members.

You can also specify permissions for a folder in the Files tool. Workspace managers, for example, should have full permissions to work with files in the