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Expiring Office documents
Is there any way in office to set an expiration date for a document? e.g. If
I create a document today, I want to set an expiration date of 5/31/07 so that if I try to access it after 5/31/07, it won't open. - MR |
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Expiring Office documents
Mahesh wrote:
Is there any way in office to set an expiration date for a document? e.g. If I create a document today, I want to set an expiration date of 5/31/07 so that if I try to access it after 5/31/07, it won't open. - MR No |
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Mahesh wrote:
Is there any way in office to set an expiration date for a document? e.g. If I create a document today, I want to set an expiration date of 5/31/07 so that if I try to access it after 5/31/07, it won't open. - MR If you're hoping to make this secure, especially if you're sending the documents to other computers, then there is no way to achieve that in Office. There is a way to try to do it, by saving an AutoOpen macro in the document. The macro checks the current date against the expiration date, and immediately closes the document if the expiration has passed. But there are at least three very simple ways to defeat the macro: - If the user's macro security level is set to Medium, they'll be asked whether to run the macro, and they can say no. If the level is set to High, the macro is automatically disabled. There is no way you (the document's author) can affect the user's security level setting. And when your users aren't dishonest, they'll always be annoyed by the macro security warning dialog. - The user can hold down the Shift key while opening the document to prevent the macro from running. - The user can temporarily set the computer's clock back to a date before the expiration. Word has no way to check the correctness of the clock. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Expiring Office documents
You would need to use Information Rights Management in order to create a
document with an expiration date: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...in/rmsirm.mspx Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Mahesh" wrote in message ... Is there any way in office to set an expiration date for a document? e.g. If I create a document today, I want to set an expiration date of 5/31/07 so that if I try to access it after 5/31/07, it won't open. - MR |
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