Creating A Ms Word Doc that cannot be edited nor copied

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Alfred

ear all,
I have come across a Microsoft Words document which
written content

cannot be edited nor copied. You cannot type anything on
it. It is not

a scanned image inserted as you can't hightlight it to
copy.

Uncheck "Read Only" and save with a different name does
not help.

Please comment as how to create such a file document.

Is there a software which integrates into Ms Word,
creating such a

unique template which is do not permit to edit nor copy
its content?

I am working on Microsoft Word XP (2002) and cannot find
the features

to create such a document describe above. (Tools. Options
Security)
Click to expand...

Do advise for it is an interesting measure to create a
document of

such a nature.

Regards,Alfred
 
Hi Alfred,

It is probably protected for forms.

Tools > Remove Protection.

If it asks for a password, never mind. Close the document.
Open a blank one;
From the Insert menu, choose File...;
Select the "password protected" file;
Insert;
The protection is gone and you can edit it.
(This is why using this method to protect a document is a very very very
weak form of protection...)

If the file is not protected for forms, and is not read only, and does not
ask for a password, and you are sure it is not an image of a file... Then I
am not sure what is going on!

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Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
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Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org
 
That is scary. A document I protected and passworded in WD2003 and no
editing allowed behaves somewhat like a pdf file. It's not a form,
either. You can't do anything with it. But inserting it into a blank
document doesn't bring up the password and it is totally editable there.
I think it's a bug.
Yet I have another document that is passworded and when I try to insert
it into a blank document it asks for the password.
 
I should make this a little more clear. The first document doesn't need
a password to open it. The second one does.

After thinking about it I can see perhaps why the inserted file doesn't
ask for a password as it doesn't need one to open it but the editing
restrictions don't carry over when it is inserted into a blank document.
Don't count on someone not being able to edit your restricted document
as it can be done. :(
 
This is why people will tell you that there is no way in Word to make a
document that can't be copied, printed, or edited. There are merely ways to
make this somewhat more difficult. Protecting for forms with a password will
keep most users from editing a document. The trick of using InsertFile to
get around it isn't secret, though. It is just not something that a user can
get from the help screens.
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Charles Kenyon

See the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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