joesfqb16 said:
I am a teacher. Is their a way that I can disable the draw feature in
Word. I have Word 2000. I would like to disable other commands as well. I
know that you can design custom menus, but my kids are sophisticated enough
to reset toolbars. I know how to use system policy editor, but I believe
you need to use visual basic in order to disable specific commands. Maybe
deleting a folder, or some registry keys?
I often wonder why people want to disable essential features of software
that is being used by pupils. Why do you want to disable that feature? Are
they drawing funny pictures? Why don't you stand over them with a big whip?
Even if you could disable draw in word, what is to stop the little blighters
using, for example, paint? Or any other drawing program that is installed on
the computer? Or do you also want to disable cut/copy/paste? I think the
only way you will stop them using draw is to uninstall word from the
computer and only use notepad or wordpad. At least that is one solution.
Then again you could give them a pencil and a sheet of paper. And you could
also teach them the difference in the meaning of there and their.
I am a mature student attending college and the computers there are so
crippled that we cannot do a project that we have been given and have to
work on it at home. Also last year they put a cdwriter in one of the
computers and did not keep the original cdrom in the computer . Why? To stop
the students copying software. The clever person who thought that one up
never knew that you could put a cdrom in the drive, copy to the hard drive,
put a blank cd in the drive and burn a new copy. Not that any students did
that anyway as we had faster and better computers at home.
rant over, bye
