Anyone know how to stop read-only files being saved?

[Pete]

I find setting up office wide read- only document are easy. however seemingly
anyone can change them(including removing fields!) and store them on their
local drive. can this be stopped?

 

[Word Heretic]

G'day "Pete" <[email protected]>,

Password-protect the documents from changes - but even that can be got
around by preexistent users. The best way is to run regular
discoveries of workstation files looking for illegal copies.


Steve Hudson - Word Heretic

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Without prejudice


Pete reckoned:

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Can this be stopped? No.

You could protect the document for forms with a password and no formfields.
This would truly make it read-only. Of course, this is easily defeated as
well; just not quite as easily. A tad more secure is saving in pdf format.

The only way to truly stop a document from being copied is to not allow it
to be seen.