I'm stunned. I keep my "Rolodex" in a Word document. Naturally, I
password-protect it. Monthly, I send it to my Hotmail and Yahoo email
accounts, in the event that I have hard-disk crash, so that I can recover. I
have just done that, and I have gone to my Hotmail account (to delete the old
Rolodex), and LO-AND-BEHOLD, I can see the top of the first page of my
PASSWORD-PROTECTED WORD DOCUMENT!!!!!!

So this means, if I (or anybody else) wants to see what is in a
password-protected Word document (aside from going to a Russian site and
downloading the password crack), all (or anybody else) has to do is SEND THE
PASSWORD-ENCRYPTED WORD DOCUMENT TO A HOTMAIL ACCOUNT AND YOU CAN SEE THE
FIRST PAGE OF THE DOCUMENT!!!! I'm stunned by this. I'm literally stunned.
And I'm an MCSE.

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So what gave you the idea that password-protection represented some kind of
document security?



"authoriseduser" wrote in message
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I'm stunned. I keep my "Rolodex" in a Word document. Naturally, I
password-protect it. Monthly, I send it to my Hotmail and Yahoo email
accounts, in the event that I have hard-disk crash, so that I can recover.
I
have just done that, and I have gone to my Hotmail account (to delete the
old
Rolodex), and LO-AND-BEHOLD, I can see the top of the first page of my
PASSWORD-PROTECTED WORD DOCUMENT!!!!!!

So this means, if I (or anybody else) wants to see what is in a
password-protected Word document (aside from going to a Russian site and
downloading the password crack), all (or anybody else) has to do is SEND
THE
PASSWORD-ENCRYPTED WORD DOCUMENT TO A HOTMAIL ACCOUNT AND YOU CAN SEE THE
FIRST PAGE OF THE DOCUMENT!!!! I'm stunned by this. I'm literally
stunned.
And I'm an MCSE.

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I'll guess that if you opened the document in Notepad, you would see the
same information. Bizarrely the default level of encryption is quite weak.
Word does however provide stronger encryption. Click the 'advanced' box
against the security tab and pick one of the stronger versions.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


authoriseduser wrote:
I'm stunned. I keep my "Rolodex" in a Word document. Naturally, I
password-protect it. Monthly, I send it to my Hotmail and Yahoo email
accounts, in the event that I have hard-disk crash, so that I can
recover. I have just done that, and I have gone to my Hotmail
account (to delete the old Rolodex), and LO-AND-BEHOLD, I can see the
top of the first page of my PASSWORD-PROTECTED WORD DOCUMENT!!!!!!

So this means, if I (or anybody else) wants to see what is in a
password-protected Word document (aside from going to a Russian site
and downloading the password crack), all (or anybody else) has to do
is SEND THE PASSWORD-ENCRYPTED WORD DOCUMENT TO A HOTMAIL ACCOUNT AND
YOU CAN SEE THE FIRST PAGE OF THE DOCUMENT!!!! I'm stunned by this.
I'm literally stunned. And I'm an MCSE.

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the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the
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