>>BTW, it's nice to see Vinod return to UT :)
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>Thanks for your reply !! I guess that is the only way left...
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>Actually this document was having Lot of Nicely formatted tables, Borders etc. I think have to recreate the whole file again...
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>Thanks Again !!

Can you "Save as..."? I've just made a two-word document, saved it with a password, opened it read_only and saved as .rtf - and the .rtf file should keep all of your tables and borders. I think there's no way to protect a .rtf file.