Locking a Word Document To Prevent Editing

[Cynthia Bell]

How do I lock a Microsoft Word 2000 (office 2000)
document to prevent others from editing it after it is
emailed? Is that possible?

Cynthia

 

[Jezebel]

On the Tools > Options > Save tab you can apply a password to modify; but it
doesn't provide any significant security. In reality, no it's not possible.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Any document you allow someone to see can be edited. The best you can manage
is to output the document to a PDF file with security options set to inhibit
the actions you don't want the user to have, for which you'll need extra
software. But even this is not insurmountable.

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[Vishal Somal]

Hi,
You can do it using the following VBA command:
ActiveDocument.Protect wdAllowOnlyFormFields

Protect ur document and send it across.

One can only see the document, its associated menus but cannot type in
anything in it.
Hope this is what u wanted.

Cheers,
Vishal Somal