My department is responsible for coming up with a template for use with
our Standard Operating Procedures. We need the formatting of this
document as far as title page, headers/footers, title headings and
formatting to remain in tact when it is used by other departments. We
are strictly responsible for the template. It is up to members of other
departments to use this template to write their SOPs. This being said
I need a way to do the following:

Protect sections of the Title page
Protect the Section Heading (i.e: policy, scope, definations etc.)
Have a table that is formatted as we need (only allow Heading 2,
Heading 3 and Normal Arial 10 left justified) but allow the text to be
changed. For example

I. MAJOR HEADING (Heading 2)
A. Subheading (Heading 3)
some text here about the tasks
II. MAJOR HEADING (Heading 2)

Is there anything we can do? Am I asking for the world?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Yes, you are asking for the World when what you need to be doing is
providing a bit of training to the users of the template in how it should be
used. It will pay off in other areas as well.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Jen" wrote in message
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My department is responsible for coming up with a template for use with
our Standard Operating Procedures. We need the formatting of this
document as far as title page, headers/footers, title headings and
formatting to remain in tact when it is used by other departments. We
are strictly responsible for the template. It is up to members of other
departments to use this template to write their SOPs. This being said
I need a way to do the following:

Protect sections of the Title page
Protect the Section Heading (i.e: policy, scope, definations etc.)
Have a table that is formatted as we need (only allow Heading 2,
Heading 3 and Normal Arial 10 left justified) but allow the text to be
changed. For example

I. MAJOR HEADING (Heading 2)
A. Subheading (Heading 3)
some text here about the tasks
II. MAJOR HEADING (Heading 2)

Is there anything we can do? Am I asking for the world?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Look into what Word calls an "online form." Check this in help. For more
about online forms, follow the links at
http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm especially Dian
Chapman's series of articles. You may also want to look at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm.

This will not give you everything you want but it is a step.

Doug Robbins' remarks are the product of years of experience. There is no
such thing as "fool proof." Teach people how to use your template and make
it clear that if they don't follow the instructions, it is _their_ problem,
not yours. Don't fix things that should not be broken.

Hope this helps,
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!

My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com
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"Jen" wrote in message
ups.com...
My department is responsible for coming up with a template for use with
our Standard Operating Procedures. We need the formatting of this
document as far as title page, headers/footers, title headings and
formatting to remain in tact when it is used by other departments. We
are strictly responsible for the template. It is up to members of other
departments to use this template to write their SOPs. This being said
I need a way to do the following:

Protect sections of the Title page
Protect the Section Heading (i.e: policy, scope, definations etc.)
Have a table that is formatted as we need (only allow Heading 2,
Heading 3 and Normal Arial 10 left justified) but allow the text to be
changed. For example

I. MAJOR HEADING (Heading 2)
A. Subheading (Heading 3)
some text here about the tasks
II. MAJOR HEADING (Heading 2)

Is there anything we can do? Am I asking for the world?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!