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Philamental
 
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"Jezebel" wrote in message
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It will work as effectively as any 'enforced' method you might try. In
theory you could put each heading and non-heading block in its own
section, then protect the heading sections. But you'll end up with a
shambles of a document in which the headers and footers behave strangely;
and you'll *really* confuse novice users. And the power users will defeat
your controls (which is trivially easy) on principle.


Thanks for your reply, Jezebel.

I understand what you're saying about putting the 'instruction' on the top
of the page, but I don't think it would be possible as the document is an
official one which will be sent to important clients, and such text would be
inappropriate to send out.

I'll have a quick look into your suggestion about protecting sections, but I
agree that it does seem a pretty OTT solution that may make more problems
than it solves.

When I originally posted, I expected there would not be a simple solution
but I just needed to make sure.

Thanks again for your reply.

Phil