COMPLETELY protecting a Word document

[Glenn370]

Is it possible to completely protect a Word document? I have a document that
I need to send to someone and I would like to make it so they are only able
to read it. No printing, no cutting of info to paste in thier document, etc.
etc. Is this even possible? I have protected it from the Tools menu but
that only keeps track of what changes were made. I have also made it a
read-only option from the Security menu but that still allows for Cut and
Paste.
Thanks for your help.
I have Word 2002

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

No. Once you give it to them, you have lost control of it.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[TF]

Anything that can be seen on screen can be captured and reused. It is
possible to circumvent even if you make locked PDFs. It is all down to how
determined the recipient is.

 

[Tom Ferguson]

No. The best you can do is to make it difficult for the recipient to
make changes.



One means to that end is to send the documents as a graphics file rather
than as any type of formatted text file. To that end, there are suitable
quaisi-printer drivers that produce graphics, say TIFF, as output.

eg.

http://www.peernet.com/tiff/index.html

http://www.informatik.com/tiffwork.html



However, even this is not uneditable. One cam pass it through an optical
character recognition package and recover editable text.



Tom



MSMVP

Windows Shell/User





| Is it possible to completely protect a Word document? I have a
document that
| I need to send to someone and I would like to make it so they are only
able
| to read it. No printing, no cutting of info to paste in thier
document, etc.
| etc. Is this even possible? I have protected it from the Tools menu
but
| that only keeps track of what changes were made. I have also made it
a
| read-only option from the Security menu but that still allows for Cut
and
| Paste.
| Thanks for your help.
| I have Word 2002