Visio drawing PassWord Protection?

[andrewLLL]

Hi,

Anyone knows how to protect a Visio drawing from ANY type
of modification with only viewing allowed? This should be
similar as the Protect Sheet function (with password) in Excel.

Visio 2003 does have some something to protect Document, or
Protect shapes, etc. but those are easy to break (no
password). Is there any workaround (can't rely on VBA code
since user may set security to high) to absolutely protect
a drawing? If no way in Visio 2003, will 2005 be capable
of? Thank you

Andrew

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

Visio does not support the Information Rights Management technology that
some other Microsoft Office applications provide. One alternative would be
to save the drawing as HTML so that only the image is available.

 

[andrewLLL]

Is there any change this functionality is available in the
next version? I need this so that my user can only
edit/modify the drawing when he/she gets a password issued.

I believe this function may be useful to many other Visio
developers/users.

Andrew

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

At this point we cannot comment on upcoming functionality.

 

[jane]

Guess, you can copy and save it as a word doc...=)