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Protecting my Work
I have working for a real tough boss now for 6 months. While he has
paid me already around 20 k he has run up a bill with me of abount 6000 dollars. All the work is in a MS Word file, in my laptop. Now he is flying over seas and wants a copy of it. How can I protect my work so that at a certain date the file will get locked under a password. I think I could use a macro, but then couln't he just deactivate macros in word. The file is now in word 2007. Any ideas?? I have googled for this with no success TIA Susan |
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I don't think you want a macro. I think you need a lawyer and a good
contract. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... I have working for a real tough boss now for 6 months. While he has paid me already around 20 k he has run up a bill with me of abount 6000 dollars. All the work is in a MS Word file, in my laptop. Now he is flying over seas and wants a copy of it. How can I protect my work so that at a certain date the file will get locked under a password. I think I could use a macro, but then couln't he just deactivate macros in word. The file is now in word 2007. Any ideas?? I have googled for this with no success TIA Susan |
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Excellent suugestion! I fear Susan is going to find herself SOL and out a
lot of money. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I don't think you want a macro. I think you need a lawyer and a good contract. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... I have working for a real tough boss now for 6 months. While he has paid me already around 20 k he has run up a bill with me of abount 6000 dollars. All the work is in a MS Word file, in my laptop. Now he is flying over seas and wants a copy of it. How can I protect my work so that at a certain date the file will get locked under a password. I think I could use a macro, but then couln't he just deactivate macros in word. The file is now in word 2007. Any ideas?? I have googled for this with no success TIA Susan |
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I don't have enough money for a lawyer and don't need one at this
stage for that matter I just want a diterent. Do you have an answer? |
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Unfortunately if someone really wants the contents of that document,
deterrents will not prevent the theft of the information. Once an electronic document leaves your system, it's vulnerable. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" wrote in message ... I don't have enough money for a lawyer and don't need one at this stage for that matter I just want a diterent. Do you have an answer? |
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Hi Susan,
Word does have access to a Windows feature, Information Rights Management. It's not in all of the 2007 Office editions and you could have an unhappy customer if he tried to open the file from the wrong computer/email address while on his trip. The procedure for it and limitations are discussed on http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/he...029181033.aspx It disables the Windows printscreen key and copying directly, (as does Microsoft's "Silverlight" add in for web documents) but as the article mentions there's often a way someone will find to get around the hogties As noted in other replies and in the article, once it's printed it's always available If you have Adobe Acrobat v8 you can set an expiration date for the PDF that doesn't rely so much on 'outside resources' beyond a sort of current Acrobat PDF viewer. Some ebook creation software (that support Word documents saved as RTF format) contain similar capabilities, including this freeware lite version - http://www.visualvision.com/software...swriter_e.html So part of the decision will be how much risk you think you have both for protecting your work and from keeping customer's happy; the message you're sending your customer by putting restrictions on documents if you haven't done it previously and haven't discussed it ahead of time, or how changing the format to a different media is received. (i.e. a PDF file can be presented as more portable than a Word document with the right sales approach g). ========== wrote in message ... I don't have enough money for a lawyer and don't need one at this stage for that matter I just want a diterent. Do you have an answer? -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Hi Susan
you can protect any reading or editing of your documents at your notebook. please spend 5 minutes reading this http://soi12.com/office/story.php?ti...ity_in_MS_Word Now you have 3 choices at 3 different levels of protection. 1. protection within MS Word http://soi12.com/office/story.php?ti...in_Office_2003 http://soi12.com/office/story.php?ti...ity_in_MS_Word 2. protection at any file(s) http://soi12.com/office/story.php?ti...ock_Your_Files http://soi12.com/office/story.php?ti...tected_Lockbox 3. protection at harddisk http://soi12.com/office/story.php?ti...ption_Software See all choices of protection at http://soi12.com/office/search.php?p...earch=security |
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