Olly
Fri Nov 02 03:13:01 PDT 2007
Thanks for your help stefan, I will look into the alternatives you mentioned
"Stefan Blom" wrote:
> Note that many features are disabled in a protected document; there isn't
> much you can do about it.
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> One way to do what you want is to not use forms protection; instead, you
> could restrict the editing of the document to insertion of comments and then
> set exceptions for the areas where editing should be allowed (in the
> Restrict Formatting and Editing / Protect Document task pane).
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> Note, however, that you may find it easier not to use editing restrictions
> at all. This depends on how you are using those fields on the cover page. If
> you simply want to mark a location where data should be entered by the user,
> you can use MACROBUTTON fields (see
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http://word.mvps.org/faqs/tblsfldsfms/UsingMacroButton.htm.)
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> --
> Stefan Blom
> Microsoft Word MVP
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> "Olly" wrote in message
> news:EB285D2A-FD2E-4F82-B09E-A21D18F4160E@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
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> > My firm has several documents that contain "forms protection". The
> > protection is for a coversheet in the first section of the document that
> > contains a few fields.
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> > The rest of the document is completely unprotected but despite this I am
> > unable to add comments to the unprotected sections.
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> > Does anyone know why this is and is there a workaround? These documents
> > are
> > used as templates by our users and it would be good to keep the protection
> > in
> > place in the first section whilst giving them full access to the other
> > sections.
> >
> > Thanks very much in advance,
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