forcing renaming of document when Saved As..

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I can not imagine a way to do this, but maybe some word
guru out there can. We want to give read-only access to a
share and we want to allow people to save the documents
elsewhere, but only if they have a very different name.
Is there any way to force the name to be changed when
using the save as command.
 
If you write a macro called FileSaveAs, that macro will run in place of the
built-in SaveAs command. The macro could set or check the file name before
executing the save. You could also write a macro called AutoOpen (which
would run whenever the document opens) to take punitive action if the file
has the original name but not the original path.

Both of these methods are trivial to defeat. There is really no effective
means of achieving document security through Word itself. You're usually
better off re-thinking your office procedures to eliminate the need.
 
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