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Document Protection ???

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by pramodpatil

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Hi,

Currently Microsoft Office supports "write protect" fascility. But you can do "Save As" and copy the file.

I wonder is there any way of disabling "Save As" and "Copy" fetaure of the document.

Any input is greatly appreciable.

Pramod

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by shmaltz

Use Adobe acrobat (not reader, the full version) which lets you create file's and protect it. Even if someone will click save as they will not be able to modify it.
Adobe also has a printer driver which lets you quickly convert from any program to pdf format.

by sergey kovzik

you can attach intercepting macros - this technique used by some viruses. But user is able to load document without macros running. and second - if you even lock this functionality in office - user still will be able to copy document using windows tools. if user can read some document then he is able to save it somethere. hm. there is one solution - terminal servers. user will work on server, but you will have to lock access to workstation disk from server, so user won't be able to copy document to his PC. but - he still will be able to copy his screen as picture

by jacmari

Usually when I want to secure my Word document, I would place a passwork protection on it. To do this, when saving your document:

Click on Options (In Word 2000 you will need to click on the Tools drop down menu and select General Options...) Then you would type in the password to protect the document for reading and editing.

by kbarry

when you are saving the file, and are looking at the Save As dialog box, check out the Tools menu(upper right corner). You can password protect the file as read only.
Users will be able to open and not edit or save without at least guessing the password.

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