Word: Prevent extraction of images

[IoMatua]

Hi all.

I was just wondering if anyone knew a method for preventing extraction of images from within a Word document.

If not, would someone be able to suggest a solution. I thought maybe converting the document to PDF format, but I would prefer to keep it as a Word document.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[fumei]

There is no full proof way. Sorry. You could do some fancy locking of the Word document, preventing the use of Copy, preventing the use of Ctrl-C, you could even prevent the image from being selected...can do that, but you can not prevent someone from using the PrintScreen button and doing a screen dump. That would get the image.

Heck PrintScreen works even with a PDF file. So you can get an image out of a PDF as well. That little button was designed specifically to work outside of apps. It dumps all screen data into memory, regardless.

Gerry