read receipt in word

[tyutghf]

We have documents that certain people have to confirm they have read, different docs for different people and these change often which people have to reconfirm etc

Is it possible to put a tick box onto a word document that once ticked updates a database or something to say that they have read it? To log who has ticked would need to either link to AD or have a field for them to enter their name.

is this possible? Thanks

 

[macropod]

Hi tyutghf,

In theory, you could do this with a macro, but that would require the readers to have their macro security settings configured to allow certain macros to run. Even then if the reader disabled macros when opening the document, you'd get no record.

Another approach, depending on what OS your network uses and how it's configured, might be to use the system's audit logs to track who's opened/edited the file. This could capture the information about everyone who accessed the file, but it'd probably log accesses to myriads of files you're not interested in too.

Cheers

[MS MVP - Word]

 

[fumei]

There is no way to log that they have read it. As macropod mentions, there are some ways to log if it has been opened.

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