After you insert the section breaks, then you can apply the protection to
specific sections. You can't (at least not at first) use the padlock button
on the Forms toolbar; you have to use Tools | Protect Document. When you've
selected forms as the type of protection, you'll options about sections.

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"TJ" wrote in message
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I'm building a form within a table into a Word 2003 document so that the
user
can check up to 4 boxes in a particular section. The rest of the document
is
normal text that I would like to be editable at all times. I know I need
to
protect the form to get the checkboxes to work, so I'm wondering how I can
limit the scope of the form so the protection doesn't apply to the
document
as a whole? I've tried continuous section breaks before and after the
form,
but it doesn't limit the protection.