Word Copy and Paste Protection

[Purrington]

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

[#2]

Once you give someone access to a document, you have effectively LOST ALL CONTROL OVER IT.

[#3]

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 you

[#4]

@Purrington 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.

[#5]

Well, forgive me for asking.

Replies yelling at the poor humble inquirer in capital letters and condescending "As I said" replies hardly enhances ones reputation as an MVP regardless of how knowledgeable one may be.

Kindly consider this issue closed if not resolved.

[#6]

I did not use any capital letters and what is condescending about "As I said"

Seems to me that it needed to be reinforced.

[#7 · Accepted solution]

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.

[#8]

@Purrington 

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. 

[#9]

Thank you for your informative and professional reply.

[#10]

So it is nolonger a contribution but a fight? @Purrington 

[#11]

Doug has tried to help you, multiple times. Why have you gone to town on them? You are the aggressor in this situation, not Doug.