[Mike55]

In Word 2003 there was a document protect button that was a single-click way
to protect/unprotect a document - specifically a form. In Word 2007, there
are menus and buttons in the developer toolbar to protect/unprotect a
document, but there isn't a way (that I have found) to add a single-click
button to the quick access toolbar to toggle document protection.

Is there a single-click button (toggle) to add to the quick access toolbar
to protect/unprotect a document/form so I don't have to go through the
developer button/menu system?

Thanks,
Mike

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Have you looked at the Customize options? In the Developer Tab (or All
Commands) section there are Protect Document and Protect Document...
commands.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Mike55" wrote in message
...
In Word 2003 there was a document protect button that was a single-click
way
to protect/unprotect a document - specifically a form. In Word 2007,
there
are menus and buttons in the developer toolbar to protect/unprotect a
document, but there isn't a way (that I have found) to add a single-click
button to the quick access toolbar to toggle document protection.

Is there a single-click button (toggle) to add to the quick access toolbar
to protect/unprotect a document/form so I don't have to go through the
developer button/menu system?

Thanks,
Mike

[Jay Freedman]

The button you can add to the Quick Access Toolbar that's equivalent to the
lock icon from the Word 2003 Forms toolbar is in the Commands Not in the
Ribbon group, named Protect Document without the ellipsis; the tooltip
includes the notation "(ProtectOrUnprotectDocument)".

The drawback to this is that MS never got around to giving this button a
specific icon, so it shows up with the generic green circle icon that can't
be changed.

To work around this, add the following macro to Normal.dotm (see
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm if needed):

Sub FormProtectDocument()
With ActiveDocument
If .ProtectionType = wdNoProtection Then
.Protect Type:=wdAllowOnlyFormFields
Else
.Unprotect
End If
End With
End Sub

Now you can add a button for this from the Macros section of the Customize
dialog, and you can click the Modify button to enable you to change the
display name (tooltip) to "Protect Document" and choose an icon -- and the
lock icon is available there.

--
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.


Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Have you looked at the Customize options? In the Developer Tab (or All
Commands) section there are Protect Document and Protect Document...
commands.


"Mike55" wrote in message
...
In Word 2003 there was a document protect button that was a
single-click way
to protect/unprotect a document - specifically a form. In Word 2007,
there
are menus and buttons in the developer toolbar to protect/unprotect a
document, but there isn't a way (that I have found) to add a
single-click button to the quick access toolbar to toggle document
protection. Is there a single-click button (toggle) to add to the quick
access
toolbar to protect/unprotect a document/form so I don't have to go
through the developer button/menu system?

Thanks,
Mike

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Mike,

Under Office Button=Word Options=Customize=All Commands
add the 'Lock' command to the Quick Access Toolbar.

============
"Mike55" wrote in message ...
In Word 2003 there was a document protect button that was a single-click way
to protect/unprotect a document - specifically a form. In Word 2007, there
are menus and buttons in the developer toolbar to protect/unprotect a
document, but there isn't a way (that I have found) to add a single-click
button to the quick access toolbar to toggle document protection.

Is there a single-click button (toggle) to add to the quick access toolbar
to protect/unprotect a document/form so I don't have to go through the
developer button/menu system?

Thanks,
Mike
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

[Jay Freedman]

Ignore this... use Bob Buckland's response instead. Somehow I managed to
overlook the Lock command. Not only is it simpler to add to the toolbar, but
it has the advantage that the icon shows whether it's on or off.

--
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.

Jay Freedman wrote:
The button you can add to the Quick Access Toolbar that's equivalent
to the lock icon from the Word 2003 Forms toolbar is in the Commands
Not in the Ribbon group, named Protect Document without the ellipsis;
the tooltip includes the notation "(ProtectOrUnprotectDocument)".

The drawback to this is that MS never got around to giving this
button a specific icon, so it shows up with the generic green circle
icon that can't be changed.

To work around this, add the following macro to Normal.dotm (see
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm if needed):

Sub FormProtectDocument()
With ActiveDocument
If .ProtectionType = wdNoProtection Then
.Protect Type:=wdAllowOnlyFormFields
Else
.Unprotect
End If
End With
End Sub

Now you can add a button for this from the Macros section of the
Customize dialog, and you can click the Modify button to enable you
to change the display name (tooltip) to "Protect Document" and choose
an icon -- and the lock icon is available there.


Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Have you looked at the Customize options? In the Developer Tab (or
All Commands) section there are Protect Document and Protect
Document... commands.


"Mike55" wrote in message
...
In Word 2003 there was a document protect button that was a
single-click way
to protect/unprotect a document - specifically a form. In Word
2007, there
are menus and buttons in the developer toolbar to protect/unprotect
a document, but there isn't a way (that I have found) to add a
single-click button to the quick access toolbar to toggle document
protection. Is there a single-click button (toggle) to add to the
quick access
toolbar to protect/unprotect a document/form so I don't have to go
through the developer button/menu system?

Thanks,
Mike

[Greg Maxey[_2_]]

Or you can avoid adding another button to the QAT and add the command to the
ribbon with the following RibbonX script:

?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?
customUI xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/01/customui"
ribbon
tabs
tab idMso="TabDeveloper"
group idMso="GroupProtect" visible="false" /
group id="CustGroupProtect" label="Protect"
insertBeforeMso="GroupTemplates"
menu idMso="ReviewProtectDocumentMenu" size="large" /
toggleButton idMso="Lock" size="large" /
/group
/tab
/tabs
/ribbon
/customUI

See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Customize_Ribbon.htm


Jay Freedman wrote:
Ignore this... use Bob Buckland's response instead. Somehow I managed
to overlook the Lock command. Not only is it simpler to add to the
toolbar, but it has the advantage that the icon shows whether it's on
or off.

Jay Freedman wrote:
The button you can add to the Quick Access Toolbar that's equivalent
to the lock icon from the Word 2003 Forms toolbar is in the Commands
Not in the Ribbon group, named Protect Document without the ellipsis;
the tooltip includes the notation "(ProtectOrUnprotectDocument)".

The drawback to this is that MS never got around to giving this
button a specific icon, so it shows up with the generic green circle
icon that can't be changed.

To work around this, add the following macro to Normal.dotm (see
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm if needed):

Sub FormProtectDocument()
With ActiveDocument
If .ProtectionType = wdNoProtection Then
.Protect Type:=wdAllowOnlyFormFields
Else
.Unprotect
End If
End With
End Sub

Now you can add a button for this from the Macros section of the
Customize dialog, and you can click the Modify button to enable you
to change the display name (tooltip) to "Protect Document" and choose
an icon -- and the lock icon is available there.


Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Have you looked at the Customize options? In the Developer Tab (or
All Commands) section there are Protect Document and Protect
Document... commands.


"Mike55" wrote in message
...
In Word 2003 there was a document protect button that was a
single-click way
to protect/unprotect a document - specifically a form. In Word
2007, there
are menus and buttons in the developer toolbar to protect/unprotect
a document, but there isn't a way (that I have found) to add a
single-click button to the quick access toolbar to toggle document
protection. Is there a single-click button (toggle) to add to the
quick access
toolbar to protect/unprotect a document/form so I don't have to go
through the developer button/menu system?

Thanks,
Mike

--
Greg Maxey - Word MVP

My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I also missed the Lock command (frustrating that MS felt a need to rename
it, but I guess that does make sense). It's especially useful to have that
on the QAT since it's NOT in the Legacy Forms palette.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Ignore this... use Bob Buckland's response instead. Somehow I managed to
overlook the Lock command. Not only is it simpler to add to the toolbar,
but it has the advantage that the icon shows whether it's on or off.

--
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.

Jay Freedman wrote:
The button you can add to the Quick Access Toolbar that's equivalent
to the lock icon from the Word 2003 Forms toolbar is in the Commands
Not in the Ribbon group, named Protect Document without the ellipsis;
the tooltip includes the notation "(ProtectOrUnprotectDocument)".

The drawback to this is that MS never got around to giving this
button a specific icon, so it shows up with the generic green circle
icon that can't be changed.

To work around this, add the following macro to Normal.dotm (see
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm if needed):

Sub FormProtectDocument()
With ActiveDocument
If .ProtectionType = wdNoProtection Then
.Protect Type:=wdAllowOnlyFormFields
Else
.Unprotect
End If
End With
End Sub

Now you can add a button for this from the Macros section of the
Customize dialog, and you can click the Modify button to enable you
to change the display name (tooltip) to "Protect Document" and choose
an icon -- and the lock icon is available there.


Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Have you looked at the Customize options? In the Developer Tab (or
All Commands) section there are Protect Document and Protect
Document... commands.


"Mike55" wrote in message
...
In Word 2003 there was a document protect button that was a
single-click way
to protect/unprotect a document - specifically a form. In Word
2007, there
are menus and buttons in the developer toolbar to protect/unprotect
a document, but there isn't a way (that I have found) to add a
single-click button to the quick access toolbar to toggle document
protection. Is there a single-click button (toggle) to add to the
quick access
toolbar to protect/unprotect a document/form so I don't have to go
through the developer button/menu system?

Thanks,
Mike

[Greg Maxey[_2_]]

How long will it take before the average users QAT looks like pea soup ;-)

You can have the classic protected form controls on your ribbon using the
following RibbonX script:

?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?
customUI xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/01/customui"
ribbon
tabs
tab idMso="TabDeveloper"
group id="FormGroup" label="Classic Form Controls"
insertBeforeMso="GroupXml"
box id="box1" boxStyle="horizontal"
button idMso="FormControlEditBox" showLabel="false"/
button idMso="FormControlCheckBox" showLabel="false"/
button idMso="FormControlComboBox" showLabel="false"/
/box
box id="box2" boxStyle="horizontal"
button idMso="FormFieldProperties" showLabel="false"/
toggleButton idMso="TableDrawTable" showLabel="false"/
button idMso="TableInsertDialogWord" showLabel="false"/
/box
box id="box3" boxStyle="horizontal"
button idMso="FrameInsertHorizontal" showLabel="false"/
toggleButton idMso="FieldShading" showLabel="false"/
button idMso="FormFieldReset" showLabel="false"/
/box
toggleButton idMso="Lock" showLabel="false" /
/group
/tab
/tabs
/ribbon
/customUI

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
I also missed the Lock command (frustrating that MS felt a need to
rename it, but I guess that does make sense). It's especially useful
to have that on the QAT since it's NOT in the Legacy Forms palette.


"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Ignore this... use Bob Buckland's response instead. Somehow I
managed to overlook the Lock command. Not only is it simpler to add
to the toolbar, but it has the advantage that the icon shows whether
it's on or off. --
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.

Jay Freedman wrote:
The button you can add to the Quick Access Toolbar that's equivalent
to the lock icon from the Word 2003 Forms toolbar is in the Commands
Not in the Ribbon group, named Protect Document without the
ellipsis; the tooltip includes the notation
"(ProtectOrUnprotectDocument)". The drawback to this is that MS never
got around to giving this
button a specific icon, so it shows up with the generic green circle
icon that can't be changed.

To work around this, add the following macro to Normal.dotm (see
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm if needed):

Sub FormProtectDocument()
With ActiveDocument
If .ProtectionType = wdNoProtection Then
.Protect Type:=wdAllowOnlyFormFields
Else
.Unprotect
End If
End With
End Sub

Now you can add a button for this from the Macros section of the
Customize dialog, and you can click the Modify button to enable you
to change the display name (tooltip) to "Protect Document" and
choose an icon -- and the lock icon is available there.


Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Have you looked at the Customize options? In the Developer Tab (or
All Commands) section there are Protect Document and Protect
Document... commands.


"Mike55" wrote in message
...
In Word 2003 there was a document protect button that was a
single-click way
to protect/unprotect a document - specifically a form. In Word
2007, there
are menus and buttons in the developer toolbar to
protect/unprotect a document, but there isn't a way (that I have
found) to add a single-click button to the quick access toolbar
to toggle document protection. Is there a single-click button
(toggle) to add to the quick access
toolbar to protect/unprotect a document/form so I don't have to go
through the developer button/menu system?

Thanks,
Mike

--
Greg Maxey - Word MVP

My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org

[Greg Maxey[_2_]]

This seemed like an interesting topic for my website:

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
I also missed the Lock command (frustrating that MS felt a need to
rename it, but I guess that does make sense). It's especially useful
to have that on the QAT since it's NOT in the Legacy Forms palette.


"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Ignore this... use Bob Buckland's response instead. Somehow I
managed to overlook the Lock command. Not only is it simpler to add
to the toolbar, but it has the advantage that the icon shows whether
it's on or off. --
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.

Jay Freedman wrote:
The button you can add to the Quick Access Toolbar that's equivalent
to the lock icon from the Word 2003 Forms toolbar is in the Commands
Not in the Ribbon group, named Protect Document without the
ellipsis; the tooltip includes the notation
"(ProtectOrUnprotectDocument)". The drawback to this is that MS never
got around to giving this
button a specific icon, so it shows up with the generic green circle
icon that can't be changed.

To work around this, add the following macro to Normal.dotm (see
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm if needed):

Sub FormProtectDocument()
With ActiveDocument
If .ProtectionType = wdNoProtection Then
.Protect Type:=wdAllowOnlyFormFields
Else
.Unprotect
End If
End With
End Sub

Now you can add a button for this from the Macros section of the
Customize dialog, and you can click the Modify button to enable you
to change the display name (tooltip) to "Protect Document" and
choose an icon -- and the lock icon is available there.


Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Have you looked at the Customize options? In the Developer Tab (or
All Commands) section there are Protect Document and Protect
Document... commands.


"Mike55" wrote in message
...
In Word 2003 there was a document protect button that was a
single-click way
to protect/unprotect a document - specifically a form. In Word
2007, there
are menus and buttons in the developer toolbar to
protect/unprotect a document, but there isn't a way (that I have
found) to add a single-click button to the quick access toolbar
to toggle document protection. Is there a single-click button
(toggle) to add to the quick access
toolbar to protect/unprotect a document/form so I don't have to go
through the developer button/menu system?

Thanks,
Mike

--
Greg Maxey - Word MVP

My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Thanks, Greg. Looks like a useful contribution.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
...
This seemed like an interesting topic for my website:

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
I also missed the Lock command (frustrating that MS felt a need to
rename it, but I guess that does make sense). It's especially useful
to have that on the QAT since it's NOT in the Legacy Forms palette.


"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Ignore this... use Bob Buckland's response instead. Somehow I
managed to overlook the Lock command. Not only is it simpler to add
to the toolbar, but it has the advantage that the icon shows whether
it's on or off. --
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.

Jay Freedman wrote:
The button you can add to the Quick Access Toolbar that's equivalent
to the lock icon from the Word 2003 Forms toolbar is in the Commands
Not in the Ribbon group, named Protect Document without the
ellipsis; the tooltip includes the notation
"(ProtectOrUnprotectDocument)". The drawback to this is that MS never
got around to giving this
button a specific icon, so it shows up with the generic green circle
icon that can't be changed.

To work around this, add the following macro to Normal.dotm (see
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm if needed):

Sub FormProtectDocument()
With ActiveDocument
If .ProtectionType = wdNoProtection Then
.Protect Type:=wdAllowOnlyFormFields
Else
.Unprotect
End If
End With
End Sub

Now you can add a button for this from the Macros section of the
Customize dialog, and you can click the Modify button to enable you
to change the display name (tooltip) to "Protect Document" and
choose an icon -- and the lock icon is available there.


Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Have you looked at the Customize options? In the Developer Tab (or
All Commands) section there are Protect Document and Protect
Document... commands.


"Mike55" wrote in message
...
In Word 2003 there was a document protect button that was a
single-click way
to protect/unprotect a document - specifically a form. In Word
2007, there
are menus and buttons in the developer toolbar to
protect/unprotect a document, but there isn't a way (that I have
found) to add a single-click button to the quick access toolbar
to toggle document protection. Is there a single-click button
(toggle) to add to the quick access
toolbar to protect/unprotect a document/form so I don't have to go
through the developer button/menu system?

Thanks,
Mike

--
Greg Maxey - Word MVP

My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org

[Jay Freedman]

Thanks from me, too, Greg. An excellent addition!

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:02:57 -0400, "Greg Maxey"
wrote:

This seemed like an interesting topic for my website:

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
I also missed the Lock command (frustrating that MS felt a need to
rename it, but I guess that does make sense). It's especially useful
to have that on the QAT since it's NOT in the Legacy Forms palette.


"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Ignore this... use Bob Buckland's response instead. Somehow I
managed to overlook the Lock command. Not only is it simpler to add
to the toolbar, but it has the advantage that the icon shows whether
it's on or off. --
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.

Jay Freedman wrote:
The button you can add to the Quick Access Toolbar that's equivalent
to the lock icon from the Word 2003 Forms toolbar is in the Commands
Not in the Ribbon group, named Protect Document without the
ellipsis; the tooltip includes the notation
"(ProtectOrUnprotectDocument)". The drawback to this is that MS never
got around to giving this
button a specific icon, so it shows up with the generic green circle
icon that can't be changed.

To work around this, add the following macro to Normal.dotm (see
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm if needed):

Sub FormProtectDocument()
With ActiveDocument
If .ProtectionType = wdNoProtection Then
.Protect Type:=wdAllowOnlyFormFields
Else
.Unprotect
End If
End With
End Sub

Now you can add a button for this from the Macros section of the
Customize dialog, and you can click the Modify button to enable you
to change the display name (tooltip) to "Protect Document" and
choose an icon -- and the lock icon is available there.


Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Have you looked at the Customize options? In the Developer Tab (or
All Commands) section there are Protect Document and Protect
Document... commands.


"Mike55" wrote in message
...
In Word 2003 there was a document protect button that was a
single-click way
to protect/unprotect a document - specifically a form. In Word
2007, there
are menus and buttons in the developer toolbar to
protect/unprotect a document, but there isn't a way (that I have
found) to add a single-click button to the quick access toolbar
to toggle document protection. Is there a single-click button
(toggle) to add to the quick access
toolbar to protect/unprotect a document/form so I don't have to go
through the developer button/menu system?

Thanks,
Mike

[Graham Mayor]

Nice one!

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Greg Maxey wrote:
This seemed like an interesting topic for my website:

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
I also missed the Lock command (frustrating that MS felt a need to
rename it, but I guess that does make sense). It's especially useful
to have that on the QAT since it's NOT in the Legacy Forms palette.


"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Ignore this... use Bob Buckland's response instead. Somehow I
managed to overlook the Lock command. Not only is it simpler to add
to the toolbar, but it has the advantage that the icon shows whether
it's on or off. --
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.

Jay Freedman wrote:
The button you can add to the Quick Access Toolbar that's
equivalent to the lock icon from the Word 2003 Forms toolbar is in
the Commands Not in the Ribbon group, named Protect Document
without the ellipsis; the tooltip includes the notation
"(ProtectOrUnprotectDocument)". The drawback to this is that MS
never got around to giving this
button a specific icon, so it shows up with the generic green
circle icon that can't be changed.

To work around this, add the following macro to Normal.dotm (see
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm if needed):

Sub FormProtectDocument()
With ActiveDocument
If .ProtectionType = wdNoProtection Then
.Protect Type:=wdAllowOnlyFormFields
Else
.Unprotect
End If
End With
End Sub

Now you can add a button for this from the Macros section of the
Customize dialog, and you can click the Modify button to enable you
to change the display name (tooltip) to "Protect Document" and
choose an icon -- and the lock icon is available there.


Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Have you looked at the Customize options? In the Developer Tab (or
All Commands) section there are Protect Document and Protect
Document... commands.


"Mike55" wrote in message
...
In Word 2003 there was a document protect button that was a
single-click way
to protect/unprotect a document - specifically a form. In Word
2007, there
are menus and buttons in the developer toolbar to
protect/unprotect a document, but there isn't a way (that I have
found) to add a single-click button to the quick access toolbar
to toggle document protection. Is there a single-click button
(toggle) to add to the quick access
toolbar to protect/unprotect a document/form so I don't have to
go through the developer button/menu system?

Thanks,
Mike