Saving Word documents read only?

[paul.meaney]

Hi all,


I am creating word documents with .NET and am loading them with our XML

data transformed into WordML using a custom stylesheet. However we have

noticed that when we display the Documents for download on ourwebsite,
if they are opened within IE they are editable within IE. Now we have
password locked the documents programmatically within the saveAs(...)
function so this is fine if users save the file onto their hard drive.


However what I found I cannot do is save the file as readonly.


in my code I set these two paramters:
//variables
object setReadOnlyON = true;
object setReadOnlyOFF = false;
bool readonly = true;
QA_pwd = "*******"


//security settings..
object writePassword = readOnly ? this.QA_pwd : Type.Missing;//password

protect


object readOnlyRecommended = readOnly ? setReadOnlyON :
setReadOnlyOFF;//make read only


and I then call the SaveAs() function. A check of the ReadOnly function

afterwards shows the file is writable.


Any ideas how to save the file as read only and more importantly how we

can stop it being edited and saved in IE?


Paul.