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Hello,<br />
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Suppose you have a .pdf with simple text (i.e. no diagrams or photos, etc.). &nbsp;Is there any way to format it so that portions of its content cannot be copied and pasted to another application such as MS Word or Excel?<br />
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Hello,

Suppose you have a .pdf with simple text (i.e. no diagrams or photos, etc.).  Is there any way to format it so that portions of its content cannot be copied and pasted to another application such as MS Word or Excel?

Thanks

Can a .pdf file be &quot;copy&quot; protected?

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Microsoft Word is a commercial document editing program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It features numerous text-editing tools for creating richly formatted documents, along with tools for the use of macros in Word documents. Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx file extension. Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as the OpenDocument format (ODF) are available. Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art.

Can a .pdf file be &quot;copy&quot; protected?

Can a .pdf file be "copy" protected?