[netbroker]

Thanks CyberTaz for your response.

Fine, but don't you think that the engineers in Microsoft and all the MVP
people should put their thinking hats on.

My suggestion that once a word document is protected then it should be 100%,
by disenabling the select and copy function, this way it can never be
tampered with as the original document.

Ok , If someone really wanted to copy and tamper an original he would have
to start fron scratch to edit another document, this of course could loose
some of the authenticity.

"CyberTaz" wrote:

Protection merely prevents the *original* file from being modified. There is
no such thing as "100% protection" - if you put it out there it can be
replicated & the replica can be edited.

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Regards |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

"netbroker" wrote in message
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I just had to prepare and send a 'client visiting form' to a client to
sign,
normally I would convert into an Acrobat pdf. document for security.

I was not able to do so because of a software problem, so I sent out the
word doc. protected. Just checking and playing with the document before
sending out I noticed that indeed it was security proof because anyone
wanted
to make any changes whilst the document is protected will come up with a
lot
of crossed out red ink.
Fine. But if some one just 'Selects All' and copies to a new page then
surely the whole object of the exercise to protect a document, for it not
to
be tampered with is valid useless. Can you explain to me then the point of
protecting a document, if it is not 100% protection?