AUTHOR:
Gary Knouse, Delayed Reaction Enterprises

E-MAIL:
gknouse@proaxis.com

URL:
http://www.delayedreaction.com/

PURPOSE:
The purpose of Final Word, Word 97 document, is to encrypt its contents in order to render the document unreadable to anyone who does not have the code which was used to scramble the document.

INSTALLATION:
None required.

REQUIREMENTS:
Office 97 installed.

STATUS:
Freeware. The document is freely distributable.

USAGE:
Simply go to the menu "Personal" > "Scrambler" to start the encryption macro. You will be able to enter a code of your choice (as many characters as you wish), with any valid keyboard characters including the uppercase numeric keys (!, @, #, etc.) which the macro will use to scramble the document. Case is important!! If you use a complete sentence including capitalization and punctuation as your code to scramble a document, the exact same format must be used to unscramble the document including the exact same capitalization and punctuation.  One incorrect character entered into the code to unscramble the document could render the document irretrievable.

The macros do not require a password, initially. Once a password is entered, it will become necessary.

The "Specific Encryption" menu item under "Personal" > "Options" is for scrambling specific words or numbers. For instance if a certain dollar amount or a person's name is in various places throughout the document that you don't want anyone to see, simply enter that as the "Value to change" and all instances of that value will be scrambled throughout the document. However, returning the values back to their original value will require that you know what their original value was. If you want to scramble values in order to send to someone else to  unscramble and read, simply scramble the entire document.