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Word Template - no edit
Hi, I have a word template (.dot) that i have saved to a file share. I have it on our Intranet as a link. I want it so that when a user clicks on it - it does not allow them to edit any of the formating I have put in the the document. When I click on it at the moment...I can delete text etc. out of the header. How is this done. Thanks |
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Word Template - no edit
I have a word template (.dot) that i have saved to a file share. I
have it on our Intranet as a link. I want it so that when a user clicks on it - it does not allow them to edit any of the formating I have put in the the document. When I click on it at the moment...I can delete text etc. out of the header. What possibilities are available depend on the version of Word that's being used. Unfortunately, you don't give us that information... Generally, if you don't want people to edit documents, creating a PDF file is better than providing a Word document. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) 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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Users should not be opening the template; they should be creating new
documents based on it. You can password-protect the template ("password to modify") if need be. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I have a word template (.dot) that i have saved to a file share. I have it on our Intranet as a link. I want it so that when a user clicks on it - it does not allow them to edit any of the formating I have put in the the document. When I click on it at the moment...I can delete text etc. out of the header. How is this done. Thanks |
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Word Template - no edit
Hi, Thanks for feedback. I am using Office 2003. A pdf is no good as i want the user to be able to write on the page i.e. write a letter but not be able to change the corporate info i have in the header or footer. I seen a tutorial where the author had his.dot file and when u cliked on it - it opened as a word document but u were unable to edit the header etc... just write where the author had allowed. This is what i am looking for. I will be using an intranet so i want to create a file that i can put in a folder on say a d: drive and when anyone clicks on the file it automatically opens a new document based on the template and the user can not change the header but can write text in the body of the document. Thanks. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Users should not be opening the template; they should be creating new documents based on it. You can password-protect the template ("password to modify") if need be. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I have a word template (.dot) that i have saved to a file share. I have it on our Intranet as a link. I want it so that when a user clicks on it - it does not allow them to edit any of the formating I have put in the the document. When I click on it at the moment...I can delete text etc. out of the header. How is this done. Thanks |
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See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customizat...PlusHeader.htm
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. wrote in message oups.com... Hi, Thanks for feedback. I am using Office 2003. A pdf is no good as i want the user to be able to write on the page i.e. write a letter but not be able to change the corporate info i have in the header or footer. I seen a tutorial where the author had his.dot file and when u cliked on it - it opened as a word document but u were unable to edit the header etc... just write where the author had allowed. This is what i am looking for. I will be using an intranet so i want to create a file that i can put in a folder on say a d: drive and when anyone clicks on the file it automatically opens a new document based on the template and the user can not change the header but can write text in the body of the document. Thanks. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Users should not be opening the template; they should be creating new documents based on it. You can password-protect the template ("password to modify") if need be. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I have a word template (.dot) that i have saved to a file share. I have it on our Intranet as a link. I want it so that when a user clicks on it - it does not allow them to edit any of the formating I have put in the the document. When I click on it at the moment...I can delete text etc. out of the header. How is this done. Thanks |
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Word Template - no edit
I am using Office 2003. A pdf is no good as i want the user to be able
to write on the page i.e. write a letter but not be able to change the corporate info i have in the header or footer. For Word 2003 you have a very good option to accomplish this without needing any macro code (the link Suzanne posted). Open the document, then Tools/Protect document. Select all the text the user is allowed to edit, then activate the checkbox in section 2. The default is No changes (read only), which is what you want. Now activate the checkbox for "Everyone" that appeared just below. Start enforcing protection, assigning a password if you wish. The users will not be able to edit any text that wasn't selected and assigned to "Everyone". Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) 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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