Locking a Word Document To Prevent Editing

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Cynthia Bell

How do I lock a Microsoft Word 2000 (office 2000)
document to prevent others from editing it after it is
emailed? Is that possible?

Cynthia
 
On the Tools > Options > Save tab you can apply a password to modify; but it
doesn't provide any significant security. In reality, no it's not possible.
 
Any document you allow someone to see can be edited. The best you can manage
is to output the document to a PDF file with security options set to inhibit
the actions you don't want the user to have, for which you'll need extra
software. But even this is not insurmountable.

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Hi,
You can do it using the following VBA command:
ActiveDocument.Protect wdAllowOnlyFormFields

Protect ur document and send it across.

One can only see the document, its associated menus but cannot type in
anything in it.
Hope this is what u wanted.

Cheers,
Vishal Somal
 
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