protecting office word documents online

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question: when using word from office 2000
how do you stop a word document from being
tampered with? or changes made by other people once the
document is sent by e-mail
 
You can't.

Their are some security methods, including password-protecting the document
for changes and some bizarre and fanciful macro techniques that get
suggested in these forums now and again, but they are all easily defeated.
If nothing else, the user can always retype the document.

Creating a locked PDF is considered the best approach, but even that's not
proof against a determined tamperer.
 
Still using the protect document feature is better than
nothing. If you go to tools, protect document and select
protect as a form then enter a password twice, then save
the document again, it will protect the document.

True, printing a document to PDF distiller would be the
best option, that is, if you have Adobe Acrobat, which
many only have Adobe Reader.
 
Still using the protect document feature is better than
nothing. If you go to tools, protect document and select
protect as a form then enter a password twice, then save
the document again, it will protect the document.
Click to expand...

I'm not sure that this is true. If protecting the document actually matters,
then using passwords is giving you an entirely false sense of security.
Defeating a document's password protection is trivially easy.

True, printing a document to PDF distiller would be the
best option, that is, if you have Adobe Acrobat, which
many only have Adobe Reader.
Click to expand...

There are also freebie and shareware Acrobat clones; and there's the free
service on Adobe's website.
 
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