WD2000: Password Options Are Not Available When Saving Web Page As a Word Document

• Microsoft Word 2000

SYMPTOMS

When you open a Web page for editing in Word and then try to save the file as a Word document, the file-sharing options for Password to open and Password to modify are turned off, and the following error message may appear:

This item is disabled because it's not supported by Web Browsers.

CAUSE

This behavior is by design. The file-sharing passwords that are available for Word documents are turned off within the Word interface when you are editing Web HTML files.

Password protection is a Word document feature and is not supported by other file formats. Saving a document to a format other than a Word document results in the loss of this protection.

WORKAROUND

To work around this issue, save the file as a native Word document first without a password, and then file-sharing passwords can be applied to the document.

Additional query words:

Keywords          : kbdta wd2000 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb 

Last Reviewed: June 7, 1999