Password Protect Word from within Access 2003

[JMCS]

I have inherited an Access application that uses Word templates for
letters/invoices. My client now wants the resulting documents password
protected so they cannot be altered once generated. Any help would be
appreciated.

JMCS

 

[David C. Holley]

Are you wanting to password protect the templates or the documents generated
from them? If its the later, I would go to a process where once the document
is created in Word you convert the document to a pdf as doing so will lock
down changes to it by default. The other alternative is to snoop around the
Word newsgroup about automatically saving a document as read-only with a
password.

 

[JMCS]

I did reply to this earlier, but my post has not registered.

In my first response, I was asking how to do PDFs from Access/Word 2003, but
I think the better bet is to password protect the templates, and then unlock
them and re-lock them when populating fields using Access. Can you help with
this, please?

JMCS

 

[ryguy7272]

Security is weak, at best, in MS Office products. Probably a PDF would be
better in this case. You can set them up to receive inputs just like
FormFields in Word. Up to you though. Depends on how much security you want
and how tech savvy your end users are (in terms of cracking MS Office
security).