Encryption of text

[Oscar]

I have written a book that contains a few paragraphs that should appear in code. You see the coded text but cannot read it unless you know the password. If you know the password, you can decode the text and it will appear in the original English form so that it can be read. How do I do this? I use Word running under Windows XP. thanks. \\Oscar

 

[Jezebel]

No easy way to do this using Word. It's technically feasible if you know how
to write macro code, but there's no built-in functionality for it.

I have written a book that contains a few paragraphs that should appear in

code. You see the coded text but cannot read it unless you know the
password. If you know the password, you can decode the text and it will
appear in the original English form so that it can be read. How do I do
this? I use Word running under Windows XP. thanks. \\Oscar

 

[Charles Kenyon]

It depends on how "tender" the tender eyes are. Anything you can write with
VBA is probably going to be available to a 12-year-old hacker who really
knows Word. (I don't think there are a lot of 12-year-olds interested in
Word but I might be surprised.

You could link to separate documents that are password protected for
opening. I'm not sure what the effect of inserting text from such a document
(as a link) is. You might try that and see. The password protection in Word
2000 and later is quite strong but involves protecting entire documents.

Otherwise, why not two versions of your document, one protected, one not.
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Charles Kenyon

See the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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I have written a book that contains a few paragraphs that should appear in

code. You see the coded text but cannot read it unless you know the
password. If you know the password, you can decode the text and it will
appear in the original English form so that it can be read. How do I do
this? I use Word running under Windows XP. thanks. \\Oscar