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Watermarks on read only documents.

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by dave.raj

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Hi, Let me explain my scenario first. On our network I have created a folder which is read only for all of the staff, except for one person who has full permission. This folder will have word and excel documents. Now what I need to do is when a person with read only rights prints a documents from this folder, as default it will have a watermark on it, and when the person with full rights prints from this folder it will have no watermarks on it. Now I don't need to know how to create watermarks on the documents because I know how to do that. But what I need to know is how to create watermarks as default for people with read only rights. Is this possible and has anyone got a feasible solution for this. This will be very much appreciated. If anyone needs more information they can email me on dave.raj@yzk.com. Thanks
Dave

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by curlergirl

I can think of one way to do it - but this would rely on all users having their Word software set up with proper user info - provided that the user info is there, you could probably write a macro that would check the user initials and then dependingon the results, would print or not print the watermark. You would probably want to make it a "not equal" situation and search for the one user who has full rights, then if that user is NOT the user who opened the doc, you would have it print the watermark. I can't give you the exact steps to do this right out of my head, but I'm sure it could be done - I'd have to experiment with it myself. Maybe this will point you in a useful direction, though - hope it helps!

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