I just learned this:

Set an expiration date for a restricted file

Authors can use the Set Permissions dialog box to set expiration dates for content. For example, Ranjit might also decide to limit both HELENA's and Bobby's ACCESS to this document to May 25th, and then the permission to the document expires.

On the Review tab, under Protection, click Permissions, and then click Restricted Access.

From MS documentation on-line.

I just had a document expire. It was sent to me by a friend. He did not tell me it would shut like a clam. I can not even delete it.

Any way I can open it? Delete it? Move it?
If it was an e-mail attachment, and you still have the email, try setting your system date sufficiently early. Then if you can open the attachment from the email and SEE the contents, copy/paste what you want to another document. Just an idea. Word has no way of checking the date other than the system clock.

Thanks. I had made a hard copy paper) and saved it to my documents and did not know it would expire. But I flush out my email and it got fused.
At least I go the hard copy.

Remember the "Mission Impossible" TV series?
Maybe someday MS Word hard copy will catch on fire.
You coulda also called your friend...just sayin.
Much ado about nothin.Quote from: patio on August 12, 2017, 03:20:51 PM

You coulda also called your friend...just sayin.
Much ado about nothin.