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Default Protecting Documents (Making Them Read-Only)

And yet people keep trying to patent perpetual-motion machines. g

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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*ANY* document that you allow someone to see can be copied. If you could
find a way to prevent this, the media industry would reward you beyond
your wildest dreams, but it isn't possible so there are no riches to be
won

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Magz wrote:
I'm wondering if there is a way to protect Word documents from changes
being made after they have been downloaded from a website.

I know there is a protection read-only option that prevents changes
from being made to a document, but this seems to work only when the
document is opened in Word from its location. It does not protect the
document when the document is uploaded onto a website, then downloaded
to be viewed.

In a nutshell, I want to be able to upload documents to a website, and
prevent people who download them from making changes.

Is there any way for me to do this?