Same here - for SOPs in clinical studies, etc. and for audit purposes where you have to prove that the document that's distributed is the same as the archived, signed, copy, you need to prevent access to the document from the back door.
>Roxanne
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>I have apps that have been storing word docs in General fields ever since FP2.6 and good-old Word 2. It works well as long as the correct version of Word is installed. We now have multi-gigabyte databases in SQL Server or Oracle.
>We did it for security- we o medical apps and it's almost impossible to allow typists and temp typists to access Word documents securely.
>Regards
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>JR