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Is it possible to protect a document in a way that it prevents distribution
via email or print? I have the document with a "double-level" password protection, meaning the first password opens the document for read only, then to open it for editing requires a second password; but this would not prevent it from being emailed once opened, saved to a different location or printed and distributed. Is there anyway to prevent unauthorized such distribution by a user? |
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No. Anything that can be seen can be copied. You can make it more difficult
but not impossible. You can also make it "tamper-evident" but not tamper-proof. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Khardy3352" wrote in message news  Is it possible to protect a document in a way that it prevents distribution via email or print? I have the document with a "double-level" password protection, meaning the first password opens the document for read only, then to open it for editing requires a second password; but this would not prevent it from being emailed once opened, saved to a different location or printed and distributed. Is there anyway to prevent unauthorized such distribution by a user? |
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As Suzanne says. Once it is on screen, anything can be done with it.
If it is going to be sent to several people, you could make a tiny difference to each copy you send out and then if it does become 'public domain', you should be able to determine the source of the leak. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Khardy3352" wrote in message news Is it possible to protect a document in a way that it prevents distribution via email or print? I have the document with a "double-level" password protection, meaning the first password opens the document for read only, then to open it for editing requires a second password; but this would not prevent it from being emailed once opened, saved to a different location or printed and distributed. Is there anyway to prevent unauthorized such distribution by a user? |
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One trick you can try is to select your text, use edit/cut, use edit/
paste special, and select one of the picture options. This will put your text in the document as an image, so they will be unable to edit it. Note that they could always use OCR to convert it to text (just as they could with a pdf!) if they were desperate to get your information. Note also, that you would have to do this paste special with each page because of the way Word paginates with images. On Mar 9, 7:42 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No. Anything that can be seen can be copied. You can make it more difficult but not impossible. You can also make it "tamper-evident" but not tamper-proof. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Khardy3352" wrote in message news
Is it possible to protect a document in a way that it prevents distribution via email or print? I have the document with a "double-level" password protection, meaning the first password opens the document for read only, then to open it for editing requires a second password; but this would not prevent it from being emailed once opened, saved to a different location or printed and distributed. Is there anyway to prevent unauthorized such distribution by a user? |
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What you are suggesting might make editing the data a bit more difficult,
but, as you noted, not at all impossible. I think Terry's suggestion is clever, though. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message ... One trick you can try is to select your text, use edit/cut, use edit/ paste special, and select one of the picture options. This will put your text in the document as an image, so they will be unable to edit it. Note that they could always use OCR to convert it to text (just as they could with a pdf!) if they were desperate to get your information. Note also, that you would have to do this paste special with each page because of the way Word paginates with images. On Mar 9, 7:42 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No. Anything that can be seen can be copied. You can make it more difficult but not impossible. You can also make it "tamper-evident" but not tamper-proof. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Khardy3352" wrote in message news
Is it possible to protect a document in a way that it prevents distribution via email or print? I have the document with a "double-level" password protection, meaning the first password opens the document for read only, then to open it for editing requires a second password; but this would not prevent it from being emailed once opened, saved to a different location or printed and distributed. Is there anyway to prevent unauthorized such distribution by a user? |
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