How can i disable the right-click menu in word?? "The Caller" <caller10023[ at ]hotmail.com> 27.09.2006 11:50:14 I have managed to write protect my word document, so it is now "Read-Only". However, anyone reading my document can "Select-All" then right-click, "Copy" & "Paste". Is there a way of disabling the right-click menu so the user cannot Select-All, Copy & Paste the document elsewhere? Thanks.

Re: How can i disable the right-click menu in word?? "Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman[ at ]verizon.net> 27.09.2006 15:10:18 The Caller wrote: [Quoted Text] > I have managed to write protect my word document, so it is now > "Read-Only". > > However, anyone reading my document can "Select-All" then right-click, > "Copy" & "Paste". > > Is there a way of disabling the right-click menu so the user cannot > Select-All, Copy & Paste the document elsewhere? > > Thanks. No, there is not. Word simply is not a high-security environment. If you give someone access to your document, you've lost control of it. You can attempt to disable the right-click menu, but that requires a macro. All the user needs to do is set his/her macro security level to High -- the macro will be disabled, and the right-click menu will be available. You can publish the document as a PDF file from Adobe Acrobat, which lets you "protect" the PDF against text selection, printing, etc. However, there are PDF readers that simply ignore the protections, so that isn't really any more secure than Word. It will simply slow down unsophisticated users. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit.

Re: How can i disable the right-click menu in word?? "CyberTaz" <typegeneraltaz1ATcomcastdotnet> 27.09.2006 15:26:55 In addition to Jay's insights, even if you could disable the contextual menu it is only one of several ways to Select All/Cut/Copy/Paste - and *probably* one of the least commonly used. What is to keep someone from using Ctrl+A,Ctrl+C, Paste to new doc or simply doing a Save As in a format that doesn't support protection? -- Regards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "The Caller" <caller10023[ at ]hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1159357813.940144.157540[ at ]i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... [Quoted Text] >I have managed to write protect my word document, so it is now > "Read-Only". > > However, anyone reading my document can "Select-All" then right-click, > "Copy" & "Paste". > > Is there a way of disabling the right-click menu so the user cannot > Select-All, Copy & Paste the document elsewhere? > > Thanks. >

Re: How can i disable the right-click menu in word?? Cindy M. <C.Meister-C[ at ]hispeed.ch> 28.09.2006 09:55:34 Hi The, Word 2003 (which I assume you're using) supports IRM (Information Rights Management) that can selectively prevent certain types of actions for a document. But that requires having a Windows 2003 Server in the background to maintain the lists of who's allowed to do what. If you think that may be an option for you, you can research IRM in the Knowledge Base on microsoft.com. [Quoted Text] > I have managed to write protect my word document, so it is now > "Read-Only". > > However, anyone reading my document can "Select-All" then right-click, > "Copy" & "Paste". > > Is there a way of disabling the right-click menu so the user cannot > Select-All, Copy & Paste the document elsewhere? > Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)