Anne --

Thanks for pointing me to that solution. Do you it is customizable for a
directory that contains scores of subdirectories, each with several Word
files?

pjs

"Anne Troy" wrote:

If you know how to do one, perhaps you can use this to do all:
http://vbaexpress.com/kb/getarticle.php?kb_id=76
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

"pjs" wrote in message
...

Is there a way to automate changing the security option of standard Word
documents to make them read only or password protected? It's easy enough
to
do one by one (Tools -- Options -- Security) but I'd go crazy having to
do
this for several hundred. I'm using Word 2003 on a Windows XP platform.

Thanks.

pjs