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Word Copy and Paste Protection
I have a Word Document that I would like to share.
But I do not want the Document and its contents copied and pasted by anyone.
I would like only for persons to only be able to view the document.
Could someone kindly tell me how I might do this?
Thank you
- I did not use any capital letters,,,,,,: "LOST ALL CONTROL OVER IT."
Please do not contact me again. Kindly respect this wish so that it does not need to be "reinforced."
Thank you.
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You can make a document more difficult to edit. One way would be to save the document as an edit-protected PDF. As far as I know, Word can't do that, though.
Of course, any document that you let someone view can be duplicated. They can take a screen shot or they can print and scan the document, and from that time on, there is a copy. It may not be easy to edit a picture, but it can be run trough OCR software and soon enough, there will be a version that can be edited.
- Thank you for your informative and professional reply.
- Once you give someone access to a document, you have effectively LOST ALL CONTROL OVER IT.
- I was unaware of that.
Am I correct to think that the following instructions will not work?
"Open File > Info > Protect Document to view your security options. From the Protect Document menu, select Always Open Read-Only. Now just save the document, close it, then reopen it again.""
Thank youPurrington When such a file is opened, the following message will be displayed
and the user has the choice of opening the document as "read-only" or, by clicking on No, the document will be opened in a form that can be edited.
As I said, once you give someone access to a document, you have effectively lost all control over what can be done with it.
