I am making an app that is Word doc-rich. I may be asking a bit much, but I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts/solutions on ANY of the following: 1. how can i make the docs remain interactive but prevent copy & paste? 2. word doc 'objects' and some textboxes don't appear in the ios simulator. is there a way to fix this? 3. is there a way that word-created interactive forms can appear in ios simulator? I'm aware that questions 2 & 3 might simply be a limitation of the plugin but I thought I'd ask anyway. I have also made sure that any documents are in .doc not docx format but that hasn't made a difference. Hml plugin might be an option down the track but at this stage it is too labor-intensive and i'm not a coder. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The problem is, the Word Doc plugin is really nothing more than the Custom URL plugin - it loads the Word document in a Safari browser rather than a true document processing screen. I believe the features you're requesting would require a more sophisticated plugin. You could try to find an open-source, word-processing project that you could turn into a plugin. But it would probably be easier to find an alternative to Word documents to accomplish what you want.

Ok. That's very helpful. Thanks, Chris.

I would convert the Word documents to PDF files. That will give you perfect rendering of the content. If you are on iOS, then you can have links in the PDF go to other places within your app by following this guide on this site's How-To page: search for Custom URL Scheme -- Niraj

Thank you Niraj. Hadn't considered that. I think PDF might be the best solution for this!!! Can PDFs be made to prevent highlighting to copy and paste text? (or is there an xcode solution for that as for html? http://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?tid=15E61D6E6FFF7CC3C0201A8&currentPage=34 )