This is what's known as "a fool's errand".
You can click Tools Protect Document, in the task pane click the
check box under "Editing restrictions", set the dropdown to "Filling
in forms", and click the Start Enforcing Protection button. If your
document doesn't contain any form fields, it will behave as you
described -- clicking anywhere in the document will send the cursor
back to the top of the document.
However, this "protection" is so easy to defeat that it's laughable.
Just open a new blank document and use the Insert File command to
insert the protected document. Presto, no protection.
Even if you manage to come up with a better protection scheme, such as
using Microsoft's Information Rights Management (IRM), it's still true
that if someone can see your document they can reproduce it in
editable form. The best you can do is to make it more difficult for
them.
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On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 22:27:49 -0400, "-=- Ajit C -=-"
wrote:
Hi,
I know how to password protect a document from being modified or even the
Protect Document Comments option. But i notice that no matter what once
you have the document open you can still select text and do a copy (either
right click and copy, or Ctrl+C), is there any way at all to prevent people
copying stuff off of your word doc? I really work hard on some docs and i
dont want people just sitting there, selecting text, doing a copy paste into
another word doc and using it!
I know this is possible because long time ago i've seen a doc sent by a
customer that was like this. If you even tried to select text the cursor
would just jump back to the top, and I don't believe that it was a macro
doing that, it had to be just some feature within Word itself, could someone
please help? I have MS Word 2003.