They used a variety of measures including resetting the footer content to
standard housestyle settings each time you saved, printed, previewed or
opened the document, which was all done in code.

Although technically not a "lock" the effect was the same - you couldn't
print or save your footer changes to the document.

"Jezebel" wrote:

There's no way to 'lock footers in code' -- what had they actually done?



"Genine" wrote in message
...
We had this problem one place I worked at. Users could not switch off the
autofit setting in the table as the footers were locked in code to prevent
users from inserting anything that didn't conform to house style.
The only way round it was to work in normal layout so you didn't see the
footers.
Don't know if that helps.
Genine

"Jezebel" wrote:

Forget the autosize table. Having broken the footer links between
sections,
simply format each footer, using tabs, for the page width of that
section.


"Kind writer/user/programmer"
wrote in
message ...
Because some pages in my doc are landscape and others are portrait, I
need
a
footer that more or less automatically resizes: tab settings tend to
create
footer that are either too narrow for one seciont or to wide for
another.

I created a one row, 5-cell table defined as autofit to window so that
it
would span the page margin-to-margin. This seemed marvelous at first,
but
it
started jumping back and forth to different sizes at about 3 cycles
per
second.

So, then I tried breaking the footer links between portrait and
landscape
sections, adding about 5 footers to maintain in a 90 page doc.
However,
this
did not resolve the auto-resize issue at all, any given footer
continues
to
"resize," giving the appearance of "vibrating."

How to fix this so doc displays in a stable fashion.