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WD: Password Disappears from Document Sent in Mail

Article ID: 139720

Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006

Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Word 6.0a
Microsoft Word 6.0c
Microsoft Word 6.0 for Macintosh
Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
Microsoft Word 95a

This article was previously published under Q139720

SYMPTOMS

When you send a password-protected document as an attachment from Word using the Send command on the File menu, the recipient is not prompted for a password when opening the file from the mail message.

CAUSE

When Word sends a document, it does not retain all the document properties.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Word versions listed above. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Word 97 for Windows and Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, upgrade to the latest version of Microsoft Word.

To work around this problem, use either of the following methods.

Method 1 (Word 6.x and 7.x)

To retain password protection, attach password-protected documents from within your mail program instead of sending them from Word.

Method 2 (Word 6.x for Windows Only)

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Create the following macro to send the file from Word. Word saves the file and uses the Wbmapi.dll MAPISendDocuments function. The file Wbmapi.dll is located on the "Microsoft Word Developer's Kit" disk.

   Declare Function MAPISendDocuments Lib "WBMAPI"(UIParam as Long,
        DelimChar As String,
        FilePaths As String,
        FileNames As String,
        Reserved As Long) As Integer

   Sub MAIN
        FileSave
        Dim DocName As DocumentStatistics
        GetCurValues DocName
        DocPath$ = DocName.Directory + "\" + DocName.FileName
        result = MAPISendDocuments(0, ";", DocPath$, DocName.FileName, 0)
   End Sub

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