I suspect that forms protection and mail merge are incompatible. The merge
fields would have to be in unprotected areas of the document, and the only
way to have (isolate) unprotected areas is with form fields; I don't believe
you can put merge fields in form fields. I could be entirely wrong, however;
I haven't tried this. Have you?
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"Hal" wrote in message
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Sorry if I was to vague.
I would like to create a Mail Merge document and then Protect it as Form
(Tools|Protect Document|Form) so no one can change the text. They could
then
run a merge to populate the Merge fields with data from an Excel file,
filtering for just the records required (using Office 2002) from Mail
Merge
Recipients. The text would always be identical (can not be edited), only
the
Merged data would vary.
The questions is: Can I do this with a Word Mail Merge into a protected
document?
Thank you for you time.
Hal
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
I've never tried to do this, and I'm having a hard time envisioning
exactly
what you are trying to accomplish. My gut feeling is that it would not
be
possible, but can you provide a better description of where the merge
fields
would be placed?
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"Hal" wrote in message
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Is there a way to do a mail merge into a document that has been
protected
as
a form. Google has been of little help.
My inclination is that it can not be done, but I am an amateur
compared to
you.
Hal
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
If you create the form as a template and instruct users to install
it in
the
folder assigned to user templates or workgroup templates *and* if
they
have
"Trust all installed templates and add-ins" checked on the Trusted
Sources
tab of Tools | Macro | Security, there will be no dialog.
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"Hal" wrote in message
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I created an MS Word Form (template) that contains 3 checkboxes
and 1
textbox. I coded the checkboxes so that when one is checked, the
other
two
are unchecked. I am trying to emulate what grouped radio buttons
do,
where
you can only click one at a time.
When I execute the document, I get the dialog box that askes me if
I
want
to
enable/disable macros. I don't want that to pop up when users
execute
the
document. Is there a way to stop that from happening without
asking
the
users
to change the security setting in MS Word, or is there another way
of
handling what I'm trying to accomplish?
Thank you