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Purrington
Jun 01, 2022Copper Contributor
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 docum...
- Jun 03, 2022I 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.
Stefan_Blom
Jun 03, 2022MVP
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.
- PurringtonJun 03, 2022Copper ContributorThank you for your informative and professional reply.