[mso] Re: Protect a Word 2000 document?

>there is a lot of Office password crackers available in the Web

<g> True! But then again, you have to be pretty determined to do a crack
since to get the software you'll be giving your credit card info to someone
who makes a living hacking code. ;-)

Plus, I'll lay odds that a simple doc lock will be good enough in this case.


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From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Wilson Baptista Junior
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 2:17 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Protect a Word 2000 document?

In Office2000 it's in "Tools"->"Save".
But Office passwords are very easy to crack (there is a lot of Office
password crackers available in the Web), so if you want to distribute a file
that the user will not be allowed to modify I would definitely suggest that
you use Adobe Acrobat to convert it to .pdf and use its protection
capabilities, which are much stronger.
Wilson
 
At 23:20 7/2/2008,bluefilly wrote:
>I dont have that version of Word 2000, and cannot remember where the
>setting is. Is it tools - options and the Security tab? If so, there
>should be two password options there - password to open, and password
>to modify. You can set one or both levels of protection. I am not sure
>why passwords would not stick.
>
>A password to modify can be added but you can still edit the document
>(I think). You just can't save the changes you made, unless you use
>File - Save As.
>
>Depending on your needs, you could look at conversion to PDF
>(depending if the documents need later editing or not).


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