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Chapter EIGHTEEN. Making Your Documents Secure
In many cases, once you've finished tweaking, modifying, and perfecting your document, there remains one important final step: guaranteeing your document's security. It isn't necessary to secure every document you create. I don't bother with security for any material I use and store on my own computers. On the other hand, if I want to have someone review my work, or am putting documents on a Web site for general distribution, I usually protect the document's content in some way. As you'll learn in this set of tips, you can add security to your documents in several ways. Which option you choose depends on the material involved, as well as on your intended audience; you can: Restrict opening of your document with a password, and further restrict any types of changes with another password. Digitally sign your document, which restricts editing of the document's contents. Restrict access to your document to a specific user list, based on digital signatures, and assign different rights to different users. Encrypt the content and attachments in a document for secure distribution.
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