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Protecting Word Document with Imbedded Objects
I have prepared a manual in which I need to protect to esnure no chnages are
made. In this manual I have imbedded additional documents to be used as examples. When I select the protect document feature in Word 2003 the entire document is protected to include the imbedded object. Thus the user can not open imbedded object to get at the attachment. 1. Is there a way to protect the document w/o protecting the imbedded objects? 2. Should I be doing something else other then trying to attach additional documents through the imbedding feature of Word 2003 |
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Protecting Word Document with Imbedded Objects
spaceman wrote:
I have prepared a manual in which I need to protect to esnure no chnages are made. In this manual I have imbedded additional documents to be used as examples. When I select the protect document feature in Word 2003 the entire document is protected to include the imbedded object. Thus the user can not open imbedded object to get at the attachment. 1. Is there a way to protect the document w/o protecting the imbedded objects? 2. Should I be doing something else other then trying to attach additional documents through the imbedding feature of Word 2003 1. If you insert a section break before and after each embedded object (or group of objects), you can protect the document and, in the Tools Protect Document dialog, choose to unprotect the section(s) containing the objects. 2. Another possibility is to insert hyperlinks to the other documents instead of embedding them, and use the technique at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/HLinksInForms.htm to make the links work. However, this comes with two requirements: (a) The other documents must be available to the user, which could be a problem if you need to send the documents to other computers. (b) The technique requires a macro, so either the document must be digitally signed or the user must set the macro security level to Medium and enable the macro when opening the document. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Protecting Word Document with Imbedded Objects
The second option will not work because neither condition 1 or 2 can be met.
I guess I need a little clarification on option 1. The imbedded objects appear at the end of a sentence. Like Please see attachment for detailed information. (embedded object) Thus it does not seem possible to put a continious section break before and after the embedded object. "Jay Freedman" wrote: spaceman wrote: I have prepared a manual in which I need to protect to esnure no chnages are made. In this manual I have imbedded additional documents to be used as examples. When I select the protect document feature in Word 2003 the entire document is protected to include the imbedded object. Thus the user can not open imbedded object to get at the attachment. 1. Is there a way to protect the document w/o protecting the imbedded objects? 2. Should I be doing something else other then trying to attach additional documents through the imbedding feature of Word 2003 1. If you insert a section break before and after each embedded object (or group of objects), you can protect the document and, in the Tools Protect Document dialog, choose to unprotect the section(s) containing the objects. 2. Another possibility is to insert hyperlinks to the other documents instead of embedding them, and use the technique at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/HLinksInForms.htm to make the links work. However, this comes with two requirements: (a) The other documents must be available to the user, which could be a problem if you need to send the documents to other computers. (b) The technique requires a macro, so either the document must be digitally signed or the user must set the macro security level to Medium and enable the macro when opening the document. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Protecting Word Document with Imbedded Objects
You're correct that inserting a continuous section break before the
object will force the object to appear below the text instead of on the same line. I'm sorry if that's not acceptable, but there are no other options. -- 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, 29 Nov 2005 13:01:05 -0800, "spaceman" wrote: The second option will not work because neither condition 1 or 2 can be met. I guess I need a little clarification on option 1. The imbedded objects appear at the end of a sentence. Like Please see attachment for detailed information. (embedded object) Thus it does not seem possible to put a continious section break before and after the embedded object. "Jay Freedman" wrote: spaceman wrote: I have prepared a manual in which I need to protect to esnure no chnages are made. In this manual I have imbedded additional documents to be used as examples. When I select the protect document feature in Word 2003 the entire document is protected to include the imbedded object. Thus the user can not open imbedded object to get at the attachment. 1. Is there a way to protect the document w/o protecting the imbedded objects? 2. Should I be doing something else other then trying to attach additional documents through the imbedding feature of Word 2003 1. If you insert a section break before and after each embedded object (or group of objects), you can protect the document and, in the Tools Protect Document dialog, choose to unprotect the section(s) containing the objects. 2. Another possibility is to insert hyperlinks to the other documents instead of embedding them, and use the technique at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/HLinksInForms.htm to make the links work. However, this comes with two requirements: (a) The other documents must be available to the user, which could be a problem if you need to send the documents to other computers. (b) The technique requires a macro, so either the document must be digitally signed or the user must set the macro security level to Medium and enable the macro when opening the document. |
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