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Someone here is having a big problem and I said I would post this question on
their behalf. Here's what's happening.

They have a Word document that contains quite a few form fields. "Some" of
the form fields are merged with information from an external database and
after merging, they are no longer form fields. At this point, the form is
then to be sent out to about 100 people for them to complete the remaining
fields. The question is how can the fields that have data from that external
database be locked prior to mailing out this form?