Protecting the document

[Ozgur Pars]

Hello,
I am trying to make a word document protected so that the end user can only
print it. In the end the user should not be able to change, copy or save as
the document.

I have thought of pasting the whole document as a picture and protecting it
somehow... I am trying but its easier said than done.

Any help or pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Ozgur

 

[Jezebel]

Can't be done.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?T3pndXIgUGFycw==?=,

I am trying to make a word document protected so that the end user can only
print it. In the end the user should not be able to change, copy or save as
the document.

I have thought of pasting the whole document as a picture and protecting it
somehow... I am trying but its easier said than done.

I concur with Jezebel. Even the new protection provided in Word 2003 won't
stop the user from "Save As". Best you can probably do is to convert the
document to PDF format.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Jezebel]

Even PDF doesn't help much. Although Acrobat has all those security
settings, some of the clones ignore them; and you can always OCR the
document, or just retype it.