Hello Cathy, Thursday, July 22, 2004, 10:32:44 PM, you wrote: CEFc> HenryH, have you considered 3rd party document management/protection CEFc> systems that will provide audit trails, document archiving, etc. CEFc> Potentially a work process solution would be valuable. If none of these CEFc> urls provide ideas, assistance, another idea (though I could not help with CEFc> the actual 'how to') is to automate a process that would 'copy' the file to CEFc> a directory set up to hold copies of these documents, the directory could CEFc> have protections on it and only certain able to access it. CEFc> Also, Dian Chapman's site has a word backup utility, ( CEFc> http://www.mousetrax.com/Downloads.html) that may be useful. We have CEFc> similar situation and are handling it via strict work process and document CEFc> management system that stores the archives. Ours is more of a web CEFc> repository, which is where our work process comes in. Just a few ideas, CEFc> hope that helps, Cathy CEFc> http://www.sealedmedia.com/# CEFc> http://www.cypherix.com/cryptainerle/index.htm?source=adwords&keyword=folder CEFc> http://www.articsoft.com/products.htm CEFc> http://www.cypresssoftware.com/solutions/solutions_sarbanes_oxley.htm Thanks Cathy. From your description this looks very promising. I can't check the URLs now as I have to get some sleep but I should have some time over the weekend. I had had a quick look at Dian Chapman's site but didn't see the one you referred to. I will check it again. -- Best regards, HenryH mailto:hhinoz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Disclaimer: Contents of this email are to be considered secret. You must not read this email, and you must dispose of your computer immediately, should you receive this email accidentally. I cannot take responsibility for any incorrect information that this email may contain, especially the bit about the monkeys and John Howard. Should anyone say otherwise, they are obviously lying. ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************