how can I view a word document and stop edit or print

[Gary]

I need to be able to call up a word document for users to view but must not
be able to chage or print it.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Gary was telling us:
Gary nous racontait que :

I need to be able to call up a word document for users to view but
must not be able to chage or print it.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Easy?
No.
Possible?
Yes.
Practical?
No (Any Word method is easily defeated,
even by totally inexperienced users,
Word was not designed for this kind of protection...)
Must be done at all costs?
Use Acrobat Writer with its password protection
against editing and printing.
Will it really prevent Printing?
Not for advanced users...

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Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
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Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org

 

[Gary]

Gary was telling us:
Gary nous racontait que :


Easy?
No.
Possible?
Yes.
Practical?
No (Any Word method is easily defeated,
even by totally inexperienced users,
Word was not designed for this kind of protection...)
Must be done at all costs?
Use Acrobat Writer with its password protection
against editing and printing.
Will it really prevent Printing?
Not for advanced users...

--
Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
(e-mail address removed)
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org

Merci

Much as I expected, but I am under pressure to come up with a solution, I
think I can live with the print option as long as they can't change it. I'd
rather not use acrobat writer if possible as then I'd need to deploy it on
every pc, and pay for it!

Perhaps there's another solution out there somewhere .....

Cheers

Gary

 

[Andi Mayer]

Much as I expected, but I am under pressure to come up with a solution, I
think I can live with the print option as long as they can't change it. I'd
rather not use acrobat writer if possible as then I'd need to deploy it on
every pc, and pay for it!

Perhaps there's another solution out there somewhere .....

you could make the document read-only

but everybody can use Save-As

If you expect an answer to a personal mail, add the word "manfred" to the first 10 lines in the message
MW

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Gary was telling us:
Gary nous racontait que :

Much as I expected, but I am under pressure to come up with a
solution, I think I can live with the print option as long as they
can't change it. I'd rather not use acrobat writer if possible as

What option? Who cannot change what?

then I'd need to deploy it on every pc, and pay for it!

Perhaps there's another solution out there somewhere .....

Acrobat Reader is free, most computer already have it installed.
You would only need to pay for Acrobat Writer once for you to generate the
PDF documents.

The problem with Word is that to prevent printing you have to go through
macros, and if anybody sets its security to high, all macros are disabled
automatically without warning. Even if the user wants to follow your
restrictions, he/she will not be aware that there were restrictions in the
first place.

For editing, just use a password when you save the document (not a form
password, those are ridiculously easy to bypass). The password with the save
option can be bypassed as well, but are more difficult and you often need
time, especially if you choose a complicated password (mixing exotic
characters, lower/upper case characters, digits, etc...).

--
Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
(e-mail address removed)
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org