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When locking formatting in Word 2003, can users of Word 2000 chan.
I'm looking into purchasing Word 2003, and I want to know if some of the
advanced protection features, such as locking the formatting of a document and locking portions of the doucment, work on previous versions. That is, if I lock it in 2003, will one of my coworkers who still has 2000 installed be able to cicrumvent the lock? |
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:49:10 -0800, LMN-WA
wrote: I'm looking into purchasing Word 2003, and I want to know if some of the advanced protection features, such as locking the formatting of a document and locking portions of the doucment, work on previous versions. That is, if I lock it in 2003, will one of my coworkers who still has 2000 installed be able to cicrumvent the lock? In Word 2003 you can indeed lock a document's formatting or lock areas against editing. When you open that document in any earlier version, it behaves as if the whole document is protected -- even the portions that 2003 marked as editable are unavailable. However, you *can* circumvent this lock in the same way as you can circumvent ordinary protection from earlier versions -- use Insert File to bring the contents of the locked document into an unprotected document. Word's document protection, even in 2003, obviously isn't intended to guard documents against a determined attack by a knowledgeable person. Microsoft's Information Rights Management uses encryption and is intended for that sort of application. I've tried it out -- not that I've tried hard to break it -- and it seems to work much better. See http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...397891033.aspx for a description. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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