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Ozgur Pars - 05 May 2006 12:39 GMT

Hello,
I am trying to make a word document protected so that the end user can only
print it. In the end the user should not be able to change, copy or save as
the document.

I have thought of pasting the whole document as a picture and protecting it
somehow... I am trying but its easier said than done.

Any help or pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Ozgur

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Jezebel - 05 May 2006 12:48 GMT

Can't be done.

> Hello,
> I am trying to make a word document protected so that the end user can
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> Thanks,
> Ozgur

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 05 May 2006 14:24 GMT

Hi =?Utf-8?B?T3pndXIgUGFycw==?=,

> I am trying to make a word document protected so that the end user can only
> print it. In the end the user should not be able to change, copy or save as
> the document.
>
> I have thought of pasting the whole document as a picture and protecting it
> somehow... I am trying but its easier said than done.

I concur with Jezebel. Even the new protection provided in Word 2003 won't
stop the user from "Save As". Best you can probably do is to convert the
document to PDF format.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Jezebel - 06 May 2006 00:29 GMT

Even PDF doesn't help much. Although Acrobat has all those security
settings, some of the clones ignore them; and you can always OCR the
document, or just retype it.

> Hi =?Utf-8?B?T3pndXIgUGFycw==?=,
>
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