I would like to be able to ‘lock’ a Word document (I am using MS Word 2002) thereby preventing it from being modified, I need to do this because I need to send a contractor a legally binding contract and do not want them to be able to modify it in any way.
The current functionality allows you to prevent modification to the document but only to the extent that modifications to that document as an individual file are prevented i.e. if it is saved as a different name, modifications are saved to this different document. The functionality I need is available in MS Excel where you can protect any number of cells (or a whole spreadsheet) from modification and even if a spreadsheet is saved as a different name, the protection remains and modification is prevented.
In addition, recently I was e-mailed a Word document that was locked to the extent that all I could do was to read it, I coul not modify it at all, in fact I could not even place the cursor on the page. I asked the sender buthe had no idea. This would be the preffered solution, but if anybody knows how to do either solution, I would be very grateful.