how to start Word in read-only mode

[Guest]

I can't find anywhere the description of the command line interface command
that will start Word and open a file in read-only mode.

Thanks for help
Balex

 

[Guest]

It may be that Word doesn't have a 'read-only' mode to be st. AFAIK,
editability is a property of the document file. The one thing that may
accomplish your objective might be code to activate Protection. Again, this
is a document property, but might be accesssable with VBA.

Regards |:>)

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Read-only is an operating system or network permission setting.
You can use:

attrib +r "d:\path\filename.doc"

to assign the read-only property to a file. Or you can change
the user's permissions to the folder where the file is located.

To start Word and open a specific document, you can use:

winword.exe "d:\path\filename.doc"

or

"c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Winword.exe"
"d:\path\filename.doc"

..

 

[Guest]

It may be that Word doesn't have a 'read-only' mode to be st<<
Yes, it has. If you start Word, then click on the open button in the button
bar, then select a Word document, but, at the bottom of the file open dialog
box, instead of just clicking on the "Open" button, you click on the small
down-arrow at the button's end, you will see that one of the options is "Open
read-only" !

That's that one feature that I would like to use, but in a more "automatic"
way, and I thought that maybe there is a command line option for that
feature. The idea actually would be to then define that open mode in the
Explorer, Option, File types, Advanced options, as a new action and to make
it default.

This would be for a group of peole who are currently documenting a system,
and they open a huge number of documents about the system to read/print them,
but they should not make any changes to these documents, and also should not
get the question about "Save your changes" when they close the document. So a
default read-only mode would help !

Any ideas ?

Thanks
Balex