Hi Veera,
This is getting confusing!
Now you're introducing mergefields. Mergefields are not formfields and neither are they Date fields. Please be clear about what kind
of fields you're working with and what kind of document they're in.
Are you working with a:
1. document containing formfields, that has forms protection applied;
2. mailmerge main document;
3. mailmerge output file; or
4. standard Word document with no formfields or mergefields, but perhaps other fields (eg Date)?
If it's:
.. 1, does the document also have fields that are not formfields (eg Date fields, but not mergefields)?
.. 2 or 3, does the document also have formfields or fields that are not formfields (eg Date fields)?
If it's 1, 2 or 3 and the document also has fields that are not formfields, what kinds of fields are they and are those fields in a
protected Section of the document?
If it's 2 or 3 and the document also has formfields, what kinds of formfields are they?
Note: the addition of the 'mergeformat' switch, which Word sometimes adds to a field, does not make the field a mergefield.
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Cheers
macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]
"Veera" wrote in message ...
Hi Macropad,
Just for testing we used Date field. In the actual template we have merge
fields which when accessed thru' the application we have, will be populated
with actual values. The user then should be able to modify the values
populated with their own values. When they trying remove the populated value
is when they are getting the error.
"macropod" wrote:
Hi Veera,
You mention a Word date field. These are not formfields and are not editable in a Section protected for forms in any version of
Word.
Any formfields into which data can be input after protection has been applied should remain editable unless there's an on-exit
macro
attached to the formfield to change it's editing restrictions.
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Cheers
macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]
"Veera" wrote in message news
We have created a Word document with a legacy text form field. We inserted a
word date field and protected the document allowing Filling in Forms. After
protecting the document when we try going to the form field and clicking on
back space to delete the entry we get "This is not a valid selection" message
box.
We have existing word documents in 2003 with similar form fields. We were
able to delete the entries and add new data. After converting the documents
to 2007 or create new documents in 2007 and try to delete the entries we get
the above error.
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