Put a password on the protection so that it cannot be unprotected
accidentally. There is nothing to stop the user inserting the form into a
new document to remove the protection, but this then becomes more than an
'accident'.

If you want to deter editing once the form is completed and shipped out,
then output to PDF (you'll need more software) and send the PDF version.
This will fix it for all but the most determined.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Widmer wrote:
Don't save the macros in the document. Save them in the document
template. If they are not in the document, they will not be mailed
with it.

Thank you, your advice helped fix my e-mail problem.

Now I need to solve a field resetting problem:
In the template, I have included macros which prevent the fields from
resetting when the doc is protected/unprotected, by the user or from
other template macro code. I got the code he
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...lfResetOff.htm . This
means that if we, for example, send our doc to a lawyer to be edited,
the macro is no longer with the doc. If s/he clicks on
unprotect/protect (for any reason, including an accident), all the
text in the fields will reset. I'd like to save the file as formatted
text only, without saving the fields themselves in order to prevent
the fields from resetting. Is this possible or is there a better
known solution?