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# Security Options and Warnings

Set security related options and warnings about hidden information in documents.

To access this command...

Press the Options button on the Security page.

The Security options and warnings dialog contains the following controls:

### When saving or sending

Select to see a warning dialog when you try to save or send a document that contains recorded changes, versions, or comments.

### When printing

Select to see a warning dialog when you try to print a document that contains recorded changes or comments.

### When signing

Select to see a warning dialog when you try to sign a document that contains recorded changes, versions, fields, references to other sources (for example linked sections or linked pictures), or comments.

### When creating PDF files

Select to see a warning dialog when you try to export a document to PDF format that displays recorded changes in Writer, or that displays comments.

### Remove personal information on saving

Select to remove user data from file properties, comments and tracked changes when saving. The names of authors in comments and changes will be replaced by generic values as "Author1", "Author2" and so forth. Time values will also be reset to a single standard value. No personal metadata will be exported.

### Recommend password protection on saving

Select to always enable the Save with password option in the file save dialogs. Deselect the option to save files by default without password.

### Command Ctrl-click required to follow hyperlinks

If enabled, you must hold down the Command Ctrl key while clicking a hyperlink to follow that link. If not enabled, a click opens the hyperlink.

### Block any links from documents not among the trusted locations (see Macro Security)

Blocks the use of linked images by documents not in the trusted locations defined on the Trusted Sources tab of the Macro Security dialog. This can increase security in case you work with documents from untrusted sources (e.g. the internet) and are worried about vulnerabilities in image processing software components. Blocking the use of links means that images are not loaded in untrusted documents, only a placeholder frame is visible.

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