Automating Password protection

[John]

How do you automate password protection on a Word Document
from Visual Basic?

 

[JGM]

Hi John,

What kind of password?
For opening the document, for modifying it or for form protection?

Also, do you want to generate a password when creating a document through
VB, or automatically open a protected document with a given password when
opening it from a VB app?

Cheers!

 

[Guest]

Sorry I was vague.

I want it to track changes with a password so the people I
send the document to cannot change it without me knowing.

The document is not protected as of now.

What I did was open up a mail merge document, merge it and
create a new document. And I want to track the changes on
the new document.

Thanks!

 

[JGM]

Hi John,

Use something like:

'To turn on Track changes
ActiveDocument.TrackRevisions = True
'To set the password against revision
ActiveDocument.Protect Password:="123", NoReset:=True, Type:= _
wdAllowOnlyRevisions

HTH
Cheers!
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Sorry I was vague.

I want it to track changes with a password so the people I
send the document to cannot change it without me knowing.

The document is not protected as of now.

What I did was open up a mail merge document, merge it and
create a new document. And I want to track the changes on
the new document.

Thanks!