On Aug 29, 2005, at 6:17 pm, Jens Selvig wrote: > Thinking about this issue leads me to wonder. What if the server > contains 'official' data that the organization doesn't want changed > but wants employees to be able to use. Then working off the server > would not be good since re-saving the files on the server would > corrupt the original data. In that case the files should be set read-only, so the users CAN'T over-write the data. If you're imposing restrictions upon users which could so easily be imposed by software you can hardly blame them when they ignore your "policy", According to Robert Murphy's account, his father's statement was along the lines of "If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law Stroller.