Is this some sort of form, for users to fill out? Do users copy and
paste simply in order to duplicate the information in a different
location in the document? If so, this could be duplicated in a
protected document with text form fields and REF fields. For an
example, see the "Online Form" example (item 2) in the article at
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Repeating_Data.htm.

For detailed information, see the following article:

I'm designing a form that needs to have “fill-in-the-blanks” lines.
What is the best way to create them?
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm

In particular, you would want to look at the linked articles by Dian
Chapman about protected forms.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"SJ" wrote in message
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Is it possible to group or lock rows in a table together? For
example, I
split a cell of a single row so that the cell has 8 rows within the
formatting of a larger single row. It looks exactly as I'd like,
but when
users copy and paste, there's no controlling how much of that cell
is copied.
I need to make sure all of it gets copied and locking or grouping
is the
only way I can imagine to do that. Any ideas?