i want to limit my users to one hard copy of any document sent to the
printer. How can i do this?

There are ways around that. Printing it to a .pdf file will do it every
time.

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MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"teachlit" wrote in message
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i want to limit my users to one hard copy of any document sent to the
printer. How can i do this?

Unless the PDF is protected from printing (entirely), though, can't they
still print multiple copies?

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"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message
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There are ways around that. Printing it to a .pdf file will do it every
time.

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MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"teachlit" wrote in message
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i want to limit my users to one hard copy of any document sent to the
printer. How can i do this?

What I meant was that if someone creates a document with Word and does
something that will only allow me to print the Word doc once, I can create a
..pdf with it and print as many copies as I want.

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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Unless the PDF is protected from printing (entirely), though, can't they
still print multiple copies?

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"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message
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There are ways around that. Printing it to a .pdf file will do it every
time.

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MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"teachlit" wrote in message
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i want to limit my users to one hard copy of any document sent to the
printer. How can i do this?

Keep the paper under lock and key.

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Tony

"teachlit" wrote in message
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i want to limit my users to one hard copy of any document sent to the
printer. How can i do this?

On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 10:23:02 -0700, teachlit
wrote:

i want to limit my users to one hard copy of any document sent to the
printer. How can i do this?

I hope you realize that taking the one printed copy to a Xerox machine
is both faster and cheaper than printing multiple copies from Word. In
other words, if the users want many copies, you're doing them a favor!

That issue aside, there's no way to do what you want.

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"teachlit" wrote in message
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i want to limit my users to one hard copy of any document sent to the
printer. How can i do this?




Aw shucks! I've been reading here for years and witmessing the testimony
that Word is capable of most anything from changing baby diapers to
shingling the roof ;-)

There are PDF e-book softwares designed for this type of use.
They just are NOT CHEAP or intended for casual use.

But only if the person using Word starts with a template. ;-)

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"Don" wrote in message
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"teachlit" wrote in message
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i want to limit my users to one hard copy of any document sent to the
printer. How can i do this?




Aw shucks! I've been reading here for years and witmessing the testimony
that Word is capable of most anything from changing baby diapers to
shingling the roof ;-)

There are PDF e-book softwares designed for this type of use.
They just are NOT CHEAP or intended for casual use.

Hi Don:

Well, it is "Technically possible" to do this task in Word. You can
intercept the outgoing Print command and set the "Number of copies" field to
"1".

However, the reason the others suggested that it is not practicable to do
this is that there is a wide variety of ways the users can work around the
limitation.

Cheers


On 4/4/06 6:24 AM, in article
2, "Don"
wrote:

"teachlit" wrote in message
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i want to limit my users to one hard copy of any document sent to the
printer. How can i do this?




Aw shucks! I've been reading here for years and witmessing the testimony
that Word is capable of most anything from changing baby diapers to
shingling the roof ;-)

There are PDF e-book softwares designed for this type of use.
They just are NOT CHEAP or intended for casual use.



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