I would love to do that, Graham. I totally agree they need training but
until they see the need, I'll have to put up with it!
More than my jobs worth to password protect my documents. I only work part
time and they often have to open my documents, which are left on the server,
so that's not an option anyway.
I have been looking into other suggestions about a macro but I am not sure
that would achieve what I'm looking for - even if I understood how to set it
up. I'll keep trying.
Thanks for your help.
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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If they are opening your documents then whatever they contain (hidden or
otherwise) will still be in those documents. I suppose you could insert
your initials formatted as hidden within a paragraph that will be deleted,
but I wouldn't rely on it. What this organisation of yours needs *badly*
is some training. I suppose it will happen when one of these users deletes
a valuable document. You could certainly deter them by providing a
template for their new letters and password protecting your documents so
they can't open them.
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Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
ab wrote:
But is there any way I can have a 'hidden' indication of the
documents I have typed?
By the way, they don't use my PC, they open the documents off the
server where everything is stored.
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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If the users have free rein to do what they want on this PC, there is
nothing you can do about their mistakes.
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Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
ab wrote:
Unfortunately, not in this case!
Any other ideas on the original question, please?
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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josi wrote:
If only it were that easy! They won't do that. All the letters are
on the server and nothing will stop them using Save As...
It would be better if they would just change the reference but "it
has always been done like this" - i.e. when they have had previous
typists. I'm only an employee and don't want to rock the boat.
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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The first thing to do is to stop your colleagues using old
letters as a basis for new ones and create proper templates.
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm. which put
their own reference details in the masthead automatically.
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
josi wrote:
This may seem a very strange question but is something I have
been thinking about for a while. This is the situation:
I work in an office as the only typist for several people. At
the top of letters is a reference made up of the initials, in
upper case, of the person who has dictated (or handwritten) the
letter followed by an oblique stroke and my initials (in lower
case letters). So far, so good. However, if I am absent for any
reason, the people
type their own letters by using a previous document and Save
As..., or even type a letter from scratch. They always use the
same reference at the top of the letter (i.e. including my
initials). Apart from an element of pride (I confess!) as they
aren't very
accurate typists, this can lead to confusion when at some future
date, they query something which I have supposedly typed.
What I would love to do is to find some way of unobtrusively
indicating in a document when I have actually typed it. I have
thought of entering somethng in the document properties but that
wouldn't work when they use Save As...
Any ideas, please?