I had a user ask me about how to protect her Word documents so that other
users couldn't edit them so I showed her how to use Protect Document in Word
2003 which works great.

My question is if you send a user a word document that uses Office XP, 2000
or 97 will this Protect Document feature still work being that the other user
has a previous version of Office?

Yes, and no. The user of previous versions of Word will not be able to make
any changes in the document. That is, feature by feature protection is not
enabled in the previous versions.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Mike" wrote in message
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I had a user ask me about how to protect her Word documents so that other
users couldn't edit them so I showed her how to use Protect Document in
Word
2003 which works great.

My question is if you send a user a word document that uses Office XP,
2000
or 97 will this Protect Document feature still work being that the other
user
has a previous version of Office?

Thanks for the quick reply.

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

Yes, and no. The user of previous versions of Word will not be able to make
any changes in the document. That is, feature by feature protection is not
enabled in the previous versions.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Mike" wrote in message
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I had a user ask me about how to protect her Word documents so that other
users couldn't edit them so I showed her how to use Protect Document in
Word
2003 which works great.

My question is if you send a user a word document that uses Office XP,
2000
or 97 will this Protect Document feature still work being that the other
user
has a previous version of Office?