Microsoft Office 2000/Visual Basic Programmer's Guide

Providing Access Security for Office Documents

You can provide access security for Office documents in three ways:

• In Word and Excel, you can set passwords that are required before any user can open or modify the document. Similarly, in Access, you can set a password that is required to open a database; for information about setting a database password, see Chapter 18, "Securing Access Databases." PowerPoint, Outlook, and FrontPage don't provide password protection for documents.
  
  
• For all Office documents, you can use the file-system access-control features of operating systems and Web servers to control what users can do with documents.
  
  
• In Word, Excel, Access, FrontPage, Outlook, and PowerPoint, you can control access to VBA code by setting a password that is required to view the code in the Visual Basic Editor.