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I have an Access DB that allows users to search and open Word documents. The users are not allowed to change the Word documents. I have achieved this by setting a WritePassword and by opening the Word files from the DB in read-only mode . This is fine as it means the user cannot save any "on-screen" changes they make make. However, my problem is a user can still make "on-screen" changes to the read-only Word file, print the Word file and then close it down without saving. This could result in a user walking around with an incorrect, unauthorised version of our documents which could cause real problems. I would like to be able to configure the Word document to prevent the user making any "on-screen" changes at all. That is, as soon as the user attempts to change text, formatting or headers/footers Word would prevent this from happening. I can do this in Excel (with sheet protection) but I cannot see how to achieve this in Word. Any ideas or suggestions. Thanks in advance for any, Chrisso |
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Hi All I have an Access DB that allows users to search and open Word documents. The users are not allowed to change the Word documents. I have achieved this by setting a WritePassword and by opening the Word files from the DB in read-only mode . This is fine as it means the user cannot save any "on-screen" changes they make make. However, my problem is a user can still make "on-screen" changes to the read-only Word file, print the Word file and then close it down without saving. This could result in a user walking around with an incorrect, unauthorised version of our documents which could cause real problems. I would like to be able to configure the Word document to prevent the user making any "on-screen" changes at all. That is, as soon as the user attempts to change text, formatting or headers/footers Word would prevent this from happening. I can do this in Excel (with sheet protection) but I cannot see how to achieve this in Word. Any ideas or suggestions. Thanks in advance for any, You could protect the document for formfields. If you do not have any formfields in the document, the document cannot be edited. However, any determined user can get around that easily. You could try macro shenanigans to prevent editing, but all a user has to do is set his security to maximum and all macros will be deactivated. Word was not designed for document security. You may want to convert those sensitive document to PDF files. Acrobat offers a more robust security, which can prevent copy/paste, printing, etc. |
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Hi Jean-Guy
Thanks for your thoughts. I am not worried about stopping determined users - I understand that Word can not provide steel-plated protection. However I am very surprised to hear that I cannot stop a user from attempting to make changes. I would be interested to know how you would achieve my goal with macros (even though this can be bypassed easily as well) as I cannot see a relevant event such as document change. In fact the events for Word seem very limited compared to Excel (where my experience lies). Pseudo code or just pointers for events would be awesome. Chrisso |
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Hi Jean-Guy
I read your reply more throughly and I realise now that I can use the "protect form fields" option you suggested. Our Word files have very few form fields and if I could work how to convert these to text then I would have acheived my goal. Otherwise at least all the text that is not form fields will be protected from changes. Do you have any experience of converting form fields to the current value chosen? Thanks, Chris |
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For anyone following this thread here is my code for converting form
fields of type drop down to their text values: Sub Form_Fields_To_Text_Converter() ' walk over each form field and convert to its value: Dim fld As FormField, sFormFieldValue As String For Each fld In ActiveDocument.FormFields If fld.Type = wdFieldFormDropDown Then ' this form field is a drop-down: Debug.Print " * converting " & fld.Name & ": " & fld.DropDown.ListEntries(fld.DropDown.Value).Name sFormFieldValue = fld.DropDown.ListEntries(fld.DropDown.Value).Name fld.Range.Select Selection.Delete Selection.Text = sFormFieldValue End If Next fld End Sub |
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