Range Permissions

Range permissions in a WordprocessingML document refer to a special type of bookmark used to control which subset(s) of users may edit a particular region of a document. Range permissions specify the user or set of users which are allowed to edit all content between them whenever the document protection specified by the <documentProtection> element (§2.15.1.28) is enabled and set to readOnly or comments.

Like bookmarks, range permissions are a legacy word processing function which predates the concepts of XML and well-formedness, so they can start and end at any location within a document's contents and therefore must use the "cross-structure" annotation format described in §2.13.2.

<w:p>
  <w:r>
    <w:t xml:space="preserve">This is a </w:t>
  </w:r>
  <w:permStart w:id="0" w:edGrp="everyone"/>
  <w:r>
    <w:t>range permission</w:t>
  </w:r>
  <w:permEnd w:id="0"/>
  <w:r>
    <w:t>.</w:t>
  </w:r>
</w:p>