Word2003 Can this be: "Unrestricted access"=yes AND password protected ??

[Thomas McGregor]

I got a Word 2003 document where the menu File->Permissions show a check at "Unrestricted access"
but is at the same time "password protected"?

From my point of view a password protected file cannot be "Unrestricted". It is restricted.

Thomas

 

[Jezebel]

You're conflating two separate issues. File > Permissions relates to
Information Rights Management, another whizz-bang (and doomed) technology
aimed to control the distribution of documents. The 'restrictions' relate to
distribution.

Password-protection via Tools > Options > Security aims to control the
opening and editing of the document.

Ultimately they aim at the same thing, but they are, none the less, two
distinct and unrelated systems. (If either worked, the other would be more
or less redundant, but in reality it's just heaping pelion upon an ossa of
cowdung.)

 

[Gyorgy Moldova [MVP]]

Unrestricted permissions refer to the IRM technology (Information Rights
Management) which is far more than a simple password protection, though it
is easy to get confused. The scenario you said is that IRM is switched off
(e.g. unrestricted from _that point of view_) but the .doc file has the PW
protection on.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It is unlimited in that anyone who has the password can open it; access is
not limited to a specific list of named users.

 

[Gyorgy Moldova [MVP]]

Unrestricted permissions refer to the IRM technology (Information Rights
Management) which is far more than a simple password protection, though it
is easy to get confused. The scenario you said is that IRM is switched off
(e.g. unrestricted from _that point of view_) but the .doc file has the PW
protection on.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Thomas,

I got a Word 2003 document where the menu File->Permissions show a check at "Unrestricted access"
but is at the same time "password protected"?

From my point of view a password protected file cannot be "Unrestricted". It is restricted.

Your discussing oranges and bananas, here. File/Permissions has to do with IRM
technology, and is controlled from a properly configured Windows 2003 server. Using
the Tools/Protect document command and taskpane, text ranges within a document can
be selected and assigned to allow only certain people editing permission.
"Unrestricted access" means this has not been done.

Password protection is something totally integrated in the Word application and
applies to the entire file. It pre-dates IRM and the File/Permissions stuff by more
than a decade

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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