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Template text fields locked out
I created a template today. A form with certain areas that are for fill in
only by users. I used the text field form icon to insert in the document the variable areas to be filled in by users. Standard text is not to be edited. I chose to protect the original .dot template; I created by password to restriction "fill in only", and I also protected the form. However, when you go into File, New, and choose the template (which I thought is retreiving a "copy" of the original for the user to work with and thus save) the user is blocked from and cannot even fill in the fill in fields without the password request appearing. I did not exercise Read Only, I granted access as "restricted to fill in" option so shouldn't users be able to access the fill in fields with text. what am I doing wrong here? |
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Template text fields locked out
Hi ?B?THlubg==?=,
Version of Word involved? did you use the FORMS toolbar, or the Controls Toolbox? Your description says "form", but the behavior you describe sounds more like the Controls Toolbox... WHERE did you set the password? In Tools/OPtions/Save or somewhere else? I created a template today. A form with certain areas that are for fill in only by users. I used the text field form icon to insert in the document the variable areas to be filled in by users. Standard text is not to be edited. I chose to protect the original .dot template; I created by password to restriction "fill in only", and I also protected the form. However, when you go into File, New, and choose the template (which I thought is retreiving a "copy" of the original for the user to work with and thus save) the user is blocked from and cannot even fill in the fill in fields without the password request appearing. I did not exercise Read Only, I granted access as "restricted to fill in" option so shouldn't users be able to access the fill in fields with text. what am I doing wrong here? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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