Paul Orton wrote:
> I want to be able to distribute .doc files to customers (for viewing
> and printing purposes) but I need to restrict the number of times
> they can be viewed and/or printed. Is it possible to do this, and
> how? Could they, for example, be rendered useless after x number of
> days?
No, Word can't do that. It could, perhaps, if you were able to force every
recipient to allow macros to run, but you can't do that because of security
issues.
If you use Adobe Acrobat to make a PDF file from the document, you can
exercise a bit more control over what recipients can do with it. However,
there's still no way to prevent them from making an exact copy -- in the
extreme, by taking screen shots and running them through optical character
recognition software -- and doing whatever they wish with the copy.
Essentially, all you can do is make it difficult, not impossible.
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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