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From: Doxie 2 on 2 Feb 2010 18:23
I finally figured it out. If I send it by email in a PDF file the recipient
cannot change the contents of the document. Thanks you

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

> That's how it's supposed to work -- if you send someone a Word
> document, they can open it in Word and work on it.
>
> If you want them not to be able to change the document, make it into a
> pdf and send that instead.
>
> On Feb 2, 1:00 pm, Doxie 2 <Dox...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > In other words whom ever gets my Word Document when I send it to them can
> > change anything they want....I know I can save it as a read only but then I
> > cannot make adjustments in the Document..
> >
> >
> >
> > "Stefan Blom" wrote:
> > > Please explain this more in detail. What do you expect to happen?
> >
> > > --
> > > Stefan Blom
> > > Microsoft Word MVP
> >
> > > "Doxie 2" <Doxie 2...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > >news:A7F9158D-B6E3-4B0B-9BA8-AC90963CD2EA(a)microsoft.com...
> > > > When I save my document the cursor is still there and you can delete words
> > > > or
> > > > add to it. Never happened before how do I get rid of it?
> .
>
From: Graham Mayor on 3 Feb 2010 01:20
There is no way whatsoever that you can prevent anyone from copying and
changing any document that you allow them to see. You can only slow them
down a bit. PDF is a typical way of inhibiting such editing, but it is by no
means perfect.

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"Doxie 2" <Doxie2(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:44C7A29D-C796-479F-AB59-CF54E51821E0(a)microsoft.com...
>I finally figured it out. If I send it by email in a PDF file the
>recipient
> cannot change the contents of the document. Thanks you
>
> "Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
>
>> That's how it's supposed to work -- if you send someone a Word
>> document, they can open it in Word and work on it.
>>
>> If you want them not to be able to change the document, make it into a
>> pdf and send that instead.
>>
>> On Feb 2, 1:00 pm, Doxie 2 <Dox...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> > In other words whom ever gets my Word Document when I send it to them
>> > can
>> > change anything they want....I know I can save it as a read only but
>> > then I
>> > cannot make adjustments in the Document..
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > "Stefan Blom" wrote:
>> > > Please explain this more in detail. What do you expect to happen?
>> >
>> > > --
>> > > Stefan Blom
>> > > Microsoft Word MVP
>> >
>> > > "Doxie 2" <Doxie 2...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> > >news:A7F9158D-B6E3-4B0B-9BA8-AC90963CD2EA(a)microsoft.com...
>> > > > When I save my document the cursor is still there and you can
>> > > > delete words
>> > > > or
>> > > > add to it. Never happened before how do I get rid of it?
>> .
>>


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