[Yves Dhondt]

Where did you get that idea?

There is only one way to make any type of document (doc, pdf, txt, ...)
tamperproof and that is by digitally signing it. An operation Word Word
supports nicely. So Word documents are not less secure than pdf files.

Yves

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
...
Perhaps it's more that there's no security to a .doc(x) file -- anyone
can change it practically at will --, as opposed to a .pdf?

On Oct 15, 9:38 am, Tom Adams wrote:
I get the impression that .doc files can't be used for electronic
delivery because some of the features (custom autotext, styles) are
not in the .doc file.

Is that true?

[Peter T. Daniels]

As I said, I was not referring to problems of industrial espionage or
"tampering."

On Oct 15, 3:57*pm, "Yves Dhondt" wrote:
Where did you get that idea?

There is only one way to make any type of document (doc, pdf, txt, ...)
tamperproof and that is by digitally signing it. An operation Word Word
supports nicely. So Word documents are not less secure than pdf files.

Yves

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ...
Perhaps it's more that there's no security to a .doc(x) file -- anyone
can change it practically at will --, as opposed to a .pdf?

On Oct 15, 9:38 am, Tom Adams wrote:

I get the impression that .doc files can't be used for electronic
delivery because some of the features (custom autotext, styles) are
not in the .doc file.

Is that true?-