making a document expire

[josh]

I would like to be able to set a time limit on documents
i create. This would be completely seperate from right
managements because most people don't use it.

I have very little experiance with vba so any help would
be greatly appreciated

my idea is to have the document either
1) delete itslef after a specified amount of time
2) become password protected
3) or if those cant work then to run a macro of
select all--> delete-->save-->exit

Thank you in advance
josh

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi Josh,

There's no way to get this to work *except* rights management. In order to
do any of the processing you propose, the document must contain a macro. If
the user has their macro security level set to high, your macro is silently
disabled; if it's set to medium, the user can choose to disable the macro.
By design, there is no way that you, as the author, can do anything at all
to stop that -- if you could do it, so could any malware author.