HenryH, have you considered 3rd party document management/protection systems that will provide audit trails, document archiving, etc. Potentially a work process solution would be valuable. If none of these urls provide ideas, assistance, another idea (though I could not help with the actual 'how to') is to automate a process that would 'copy' the file to a directory set up to hold copies of these documents, the directory could have protections on it and only certain able to access it. Also, Dian Chapman's site has a word backup utility, ( http://www.mousetrax.com/Downloads.html) that may be useful. We have similar situation and are handling it via strict work process and document management system that stores the archives. Ours is more of a web repository, which is where our work process comes in. Just a few ideas, hope that helps, Cathy http://www.sealedmedia.com/# http://www.cypherix.com/cryptainerle/index.htm?source=adwords&keyword=folder http://www.articsoft.com/products.htm http://www.cypresssoftware.com/solutions/solutions_sarbanes_oxley.htm HenryH <hhinoz@xxxxxxxxxxx To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx om> Sent by: cc: mso-bounce@freelist s.org Subject: [mso] Re: Removing users ability to delete DOC files 07/21/2004 08:54 PM Please respond to ..... mso Hello James, Thursday, July 22, 2004, 12:39:09 PM, you wrote: JSHM> ======================= JSHM> I want to be able to remove all/some users ability to delete Word JSHM> documents. JSHM> ======================= JSHM> Do you want to remove a user's ability to delete any Word document? Yes. The users are only creating Microsoft Word documents. We are using Word 2000 and Word 97 (I think). It is a legal practice and new documents are created (usually from templates -precedents-). I would ideally like to allow "supervisor(s)" to have full control of the files. But the main thing is to stop the files from being deleted, but allowing creation. I would have thought that this was a straight forward thing and had been addressed many times by others but I have not been able to discover how it can/should be done. JSHM> OR, do you want to remove a user's ability to delete any document of type JSHM> .doc? JSHM> OR, do you want to create a specific file that users cannot delete? JSHM> James S. Huggins -- Best regards, HenryH mailto:hhinoz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ************************************************************* 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 *************************************************************