Help me please!

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I am sending some files/templates for review. I want
people to read it(cannot copy, cannot use save as etc.).
Is it possible in word 2000? Just read the data and review
it.

Any help!!

TL
 
I bet there is a way to do exactly that, but I am not aware of it, and it didn't make itself extremely obvious but I can think of a couple less than ideal solutions:

You can protect the document (Tools | Protect Document) from tracked changes, then people can change and save the document, but their changes will be "tracked" in a different formatting and your original document will be remembered. When it comes back to you, unprotect the document the same way you protected it, then go to Tools | Track Changes | Accept or Reject Changes... and then just reject all changes. It will revert to the document you sent off in the first place.

Second, and probably closer to what you want, you could save the document as a web page. That way it will be viewable but no cursor will appear and it cannot be edited, although it will open in Explorer instead of Word. I don't have much experience in saving as a web page, so I don't know if all of your formatting and everything will look exactly as it does in Word, but in my limited experience it seems to work pretty well. Good luck!
 
While the document protection in Word 2003 is much stronger, the real answer
is "no." If someone can read it, they can copy it, using a pencil and paper
if necessary. You can produce a .pdf file using a third party program such
as Adobe Acrobat which will not allow computer printing or copying. (But
there are other programs out there to get around these limitations.)
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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