Password Protecting Documents

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Using Word 2000, if a document is password protected to
open, another user is not able to open the file without
the password. If the file is password protected as read-
only, a user can only look at the file and not make
changes to it. However, that same user can delete the
file even if it has been password protected whether to
open or as read-only. Is there any way in which a
document can be password protected as read-only where the
user cannot delete it?

Thx.
 
LPS said:
Using Word 2000, if a document is password protected to
open, another user is not able to open the file without
the password. If the file is password protected as read-
only, a user can only look at the file and not make
changes to it. However, that same user can delete the
file even if it has been password protected whether to
open or as read-only. Is there any way in which a
document can be password protected as read-only where the
user cannot delete it?

Thx.
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Hi, LPS,

That isn't a Word function, it belongs to Windows. If the user's PC
has the NTFS file system installed *and* you have administrator
control over the permissions on that PC, you can specify separate read
permission and delete permission for specific files or for entire
folders. Ask about this in one of the Windows newsgroups.
 
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