Review, Protect, and Deliver Word Documents

Treat review and delivery as explicit stages after content generation or modification. Inspection should not accept revisions accidentally, and protection should not be used as a substitute for validation.

Review changes

Compare-OfficeWordDocument produces comparison evidence between a reference and a candidate. Get-OfficeWordReview exposes comments and revisions. Use Resolve-OfficeWordRevision only after the acceptance rule is known; filter by author, revision type, or review decision instead of accepting everything by default.

Finalize document state

Before delivery:

1. update fields and the table of contents;
2. inspect comments and unresolved revisions;
3. verify required controls, links, and document properties;
4. apply protection when recipients should not freely edit the result;
5. save to the delivery path and reopen it read-only.

Protect-OfficeWordDocument and Unprotect-OfficeWordDocument make the protection boundary explicit. Update-OfficeWordFields and Update-OfficeWordTableOfContents handle calculated presentation state.

The approval-checklist recipe demonstrates content controls and a watermark. Combine it with read and inspect for delivery readback.