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Subject:RE: Making Word Documents as Read-Only From:"Jessica N. Lange" <jlange -at- oee -dot- com> To:"TechWR-L" <TECHWR-L -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>, "Shweta G Bhatia" <shwetagbhatia -at- dominomail -dot- com> Date:Fri, 21 Jul 2000 07:47:04 -0400
Shweta G Bhatia wants to make Word docs read-only.
Protecting the document will prevent the user
from making changes to this document:
Use Tools->Protect Documents. Click Forms.
If the document has sections, click the Sections
button and select all of them.
Be sure to enter a password.
When the user opens the document he will not
be to do anything in the document.
This is probably not fool-proof---there are always
ways to get around security!
When you want to edit the document, use
Tools->Unprotect Document, and enter
the password.
