2007 Microsoft® Office System Inside Out

Protecting Your Document

When you click the Microsoft Office Button, you see a command called Prepare. Click it, and you will see a variety of options available when you are preparing your presentation for distribution. In this section, you’ll look at the Restrict Permission option. Unrestricted access is the PowerPoint 2007 default option. If you want to use the Do Not Distribute or Restrict Permission As option, you will need to use the Information Rights Management (IRM) service, which helps prevent your presentation from being forwarded, printed, or copied by unauthorized people.

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You must use IRM in conjunction with Microsoft Windows Server 2003; we explain IRM in more detail in Chapter 3. IRM is not included in all versions of the Microsoft ...