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ASK & REF Fail with Doc Protection
Hello,
I'm using Word 2007 to create business cards for my team. I've used the ASK and REF to prompt and fill in their name and phone number. It works, mostly, the document has to be selected first and then the fields updated for the prompt to work. Not that big an issue. The problem is when I secure the document so they can't change other information. You can't select the whole document to get the ASK feild prompt so it won't update the REF. How can I secure the document and still prompt for the information? Lori |
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ASK & REF Fail with Doc Protection
Either replace the ASK and REF fields with legacy form fields (on the
Legacy Tools button in the Developer tab of the ribbon) or create a userform (http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userfo...eAUserForm.htm or http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and..._UserForm.htm). -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:19:01 -0800, Lori wrote: Hello, I'm using Word 2007 to create business cards for my team. I've used the ASK and REF to prompt and fill in their name and phone number. It works, mostly, the document has to be selected first and then the fields updated for the prompt to work. Not that big an issue. The problem is when I secure the document so they can't change other information. You can't select the whole document to get the ASK feild prompt so it won't update the REF. How can I secure the document and still prompt for the information? Lori |
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ASK & REF Fail with Doc Protection
Jay,
Thanks for the info I'll check it out. Lori "Jay Freedman" wrote: Either replace the ASK and REF fields with legacy form fields (on the Legacy Tools button in the Developer tab of the ribbon) or create a userform (http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userfo...eAUserForm.htm or http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and..._UserForm.htm). -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:19:01 -0800, Lori wrote: Hello, I'm using Word 2007 to create business cards for my team. I've used the ASK and REF to prompt and fill in their name and phone number. It works, mostly, the document has to be selected first and then the fields updated for the prompt to work. Not that big an issue. The problem is when I secure the document so they can't change other information. You can't select the whole document to get the ASK feild prompt so it won't update the REF. How can I secure the document and still prompt for the information? Lori . |
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