Anyone know how to track a document, word, excel, etc...

Word the email like a chain letter and promise good luck and/or wealth and someone will send it back to you.


Eventually. You'll see where it went.

Thought about that, but figured they could just share the password.

I'm trying to see if a document is getting sent to a competitor.

If you're a big dick at your company then you could probably have the IT dept check their emails from the server to see if they forwarded it.

if they were smart they wouldn't have forwarded it from their work account but instead sent it from a personal email based email account (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) but most people aren't that smart and there's a chance they were sloppy. Most company handbooks state that your email is not yours and that the company can look through it anytime they want. IT could probably do this from a remote location or check the Exchange Server and the suspected person would never know.

Thanks but I'm trying to see if customer is sending it to a competitor.

You could send it as a google doc, but I don't know if you can prevent copying and exporting.

What privacy if I send someone a confidential file that is for them only. Plus, they have services that track how many times an email is open and for how long such as constant contact, etc.

I was thinking more on the lines of tracking it through who opens the file. Maybe a file hosting service is the direction I should go. I know box.net lets you know when someone downloads your file, but I don't think it logs the IP address.