Office OwnerGuard is the ultimate Security, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Copy Protection, Licensing and Distribution Management solution for Excel, Word, PowerPoint Documents (XLS,XLSX,DOC,DOCX,PPT and PPTX).

Pros: Office OwnerGuard offers protection for your MS Office documents against unauthorized use, modification etc. It offers overall security, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Copy Protection, Licensing and Distribution Management solution for Excel, Word, PowerPoint documents (XLS, XLSX, DOC, DOCX, PPT and PPTX). A 512 bit encryption system protects the documents. This is especially useful for not only internal company documents but for documents containing high value information such as trade secrets, research papers, analysis reports etc. You can lock secure documents that you create to a specific computer. Strong log-in system protects you any unauthorized access. Even when you need to pass on the document to someone you are able to set security expiration date or working times for the Office documents that you shared. While you are able to maintain complete control over protected documents you are able to work with it without a problem or any hassles for your teammates who are required to work at these documents. Cooperate in Creating, Editing or distributing Office documents while OwnerGuard protects ownership rights for owner(s). Use full features of Microsoft Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint applications for protected documents. Once the document is ready and gets distributed to users, manage the rights with a small user side DRM manager component. There a set of limitations that can be used to enforce protection. These include Machine-Dependency, Windows-Dependency, Printing, Clipboard, Modification, Screen-Capture, Working Duration, Expiration Date, OLE Drag & Drops, Open Count, Creation Count etc. License enforcement including reseller license management is easily managed by the application. A set of wizards in the user interface makes using very easy.

Cons: Download of the trial pack was not straightforward. It took number of steps and number of clicks to eventually get the download.

Overall this feature rich package is good for a 5 star rating.