How do I restrict a user to copy text from Office documents ?

[Vikrant]

Can anyone let me know - how do we set the restrictions to prevent any user

copying any text from the Word or Excel or Powerpoint or PDF ( generated from

Microsoft Office softwares ) files ? As I would not like the content of my

documents to be copied and re-used by anyone else. I would only like the

users to read the contents and not copy-paste it. Can anyone please help me ?

 

[Susan Ramlet]

You can't, really. You can copyright it so it's legally yours.



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"Vikrant" wrote in message

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> Can anyone let me know - how do we set the restrictions to prevent any

> user

> copying any text from the Word or Excel or Powerpoint or PDF ( generated

> from

> Microsoft Office softwares ) files ? As I would not like the content of my

> documents to be copied and re-used by anyone else. I would only like the

> users to read the contents and not copy-paste it. Can anyone please help

> me ?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

In article , Vikrant wrote:

> Can anyone let me know - how do we set the restrictions to prevent any user

> copying any text from the Word or Excel or Powerpoint or PDF ( generated from

> Microsoft Office softwares ) files ? As I would not like the content of my

> documents to be copied and re-used by anyone else. I would only like the

> users to read the contents and not copy-paste it. Can anyone please help me ?



If you show me the words, I can re-type them. Preventing copy/paste slows me

down but doesn't protect you much.

 

[Earle Horton]

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote in message

news:VA.00005781.2450379a@localhost.com...

> In article , Vikrant

> wrote:

>> Can anyone let me know - how do we set the restrictions to prevent any

>> user

>> copying any text from the Word or Excel or Powerpoint or PDF ( generated

>> from

>> Microsoft Office softwares ) files ? As I would not like the content of

>> my

>> documents to be copied and re-used by anyone else. I would only like the

>> users to read the contents and not copy-paste it. Can anyone please help

>> me ?

>

> If you show me the words, I can re-type them. Preventing copy/paste slows

> me

> down but doesn't protect you much.

>

>

If you really want to slow someone down print the document and then scan it

to a bitmap, but as you say if they can read it they can copy it one way or

another.



Earle

 

[EN59CVH]

Susan Ramlet wrote:

>

> You can't, really. You can copyright it so it's legally yours.

>



Hey Susie,



Are you sure that a copyright material cannot be copied? Look here:







Even Microsoft is copying somebody's work and you are telling us porkies

now!! Don't tell us Microsoft is a serial pirate so it can do anything

they want!