Digital Signatures in Office Documents since when?

[Raymond Jimenez]

Office XP has the capability of signing documents with a digital
signature. Since when has this functionality been around?
I have a friend that does not have that functionality in his Word
2000. Can anyone confirm that it is not there, or that some add-on has
to be installed?

rj

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Digital signatures are not a function of Office - unless you mean the
ability to sign your macros digitally. That has been in Office since 2000
version. Look for selfcert.exe and run it.

The digital signatures I am talking about come with a cert from a company
like VeriSign or Thawte.


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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Raymond Jimenez <[email protected]> asked:

| Office XP has the capability of signing documents with a digital
| signature. Since when has this functionality been around?
| I have a friend that does not have that functionality in his Word
| 2000. Can anyone confirm that it is not there, or that some add-on has
| to be installed?
|
| rj

 

[Raymond Jimenez]

Word (and other Office applications) can digitaly sign the document as
a whole. This function is available through
Tools->Options->Security->Digital Signatures. I know this works in
Office XP, but I've seen one Word 2000 that doesn't have this option.
What I would like to know is when was this functionality introduced?

rj

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Raymond,

Office 2000 was the first version to have support
for Digital Signatures built in
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;206637&FR=1

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Word (and other Office applications) can digitaly sign the document as
a whole. This function is available through
Tools->Options->Security->Digital Signatures. I know this works in
Office XP, but I've seen one Word 2000 that doesn't have this option.
What I would like to know is when was this functionality introduced?

rj >>
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I hope this helps you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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