>Vlad,
>
>I would like the following. When an user ( let's call him
>the owner ) puts a MS Word file in a GENERAL field, he should be able to encrypt it so that nobody else would be able to read the file/field. Only the owner,
>using a password/key would be able to read the file in the field.
>Thanks in advance for any tip.
>
> Lucian


Ok.
You have a lot of choices:

- a very good commercial tool is Cryptor, have a look at: http://www.xitech-europe.co.uk/.
- in the files section of this forum you have to utilities: Classes-VCX Library, entry: Encryptor/Decription in VFP and in the Third Party library, the entry: Cipher.
- you may encrypt the "character" stream yourself, with something líke an XOR operation.
- you may relay on the word password scheme for documents, but it's weak an easy to crack.

Hope this helps !