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Locking footers only
I'm having trouble locking footers, and footers only, on documents. The
problem is essentially that locking the footers seems to also lock any pictures and some other elements on the page. Without going into detail, the (single-page) documents are recreating layouts created in Quark XPress, and require text to run over images, so the images are in text boxes and arranged behind text. I'm using the Insert Continuous Break - Tools/Protect/Forms/Sections method to protect the footer, but it seems as if there's no way to insert the images in a document without them being treated as in the same section as the footer. Am I just missing something, or is it just not possible to do what I want here? The final document should allow all text and images on the page to be edited, deleted, moved etc, but the (single-line) footer should be locked. |
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Hi ?B?YnVnYXR0aV9yb3lhbGU=?=,
I'm having trouble locking footers, and footers only, on documents. The problem is essentially that locking the footers seems to also lock any pictures and some other elements on the page. Without going into detail, the (single-page) documents are recreating layouts created in Quark XPress, and require text to run over images, so the images are in text boxes and arranged behind text. I'm using the Insert Continuous Break - Tools/Protect/Forms/Sections method to protect the footer, but it seems as if there's no way to insert the images in a document without them being treated as in the same section as the footer. Am I just missing something, or is it just not possible to do what I want here? The final document should allow all text and images on the page to be edited, deleted, moved etc, but the (single-line) footer should be locked. I'm not exactly clear on what you mean by "locking just the footer" and you don't say what it is the in footer that shouldn't be changed. Nor, unfortunately, do you mention which version of Word is involved, here. Just generally, in most versions of Word, there's nothing that you can do to prevent users from working in the header or footer and still allow all other commands (such as working with pictures). Document protection simply doesn't allow some things. 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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Thanks Cindy... for the record I'm using Word X for Mac, though any solution
here should really be one that works across as many flavours of Word as possible, or at least on the most widely installed versions (which I guess means Word 2000?). The footer that I want to lock is a single line of text, with no graphics. And what I mean by 'lock' it is simply to prevent that single line of text from being edited or deleted whilst everyting else on the page shoudl be freely editable. Which, by the sound of it, may simply not be possible. Paul "Cindy M." wrote: Hi ?B?YnVnYXR0aV9yb3lhbGU=?=, I'm having trouble locking footers, and footers only, on documents. The problem is essentially that locking the footers seems to also lock any pictures and some other elements on the page. Without going into detail, the (single-page) documents are recreating layouts created in Quark XPress, and require text to run over images, so the images are in text boxes and arranged behind text. I'm using the Insert Continuous Break - Tools/Protect/Forms/Sections method to protect the footer, but it seems as if there's no way to insert the images in a document without them being treated as in the same section as the footer. Am I just missing something, or is it just not possible to do what I want here? The final document should allow all text and images on the page to be edited, deleted, moved etc, but the (single-line) footer should be locked. I'm not exactly clear on what you mean by "locking just the footer" and you don't say what it is the in footer that shouldn't be changed. Nor, unfortunately, do you mention which version of Word is involved, here. Just generally, in most versions of Word, there's nothing that you can do to prevent users from working in the header or footer and still allow all other commands (such as working with pictures). Document protection simply doesn't allow some things. 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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Hi ?B?YnVnYXR0aV9yb3lhbGU=?=,
for the record I'm using Word X for Mac, though any solution here should really be one that works across as many flavours of Word as possible, or at least on the most widely installed versions (which I guess means Word 2000?). The footer that I want to lock is a single line of text, with no graphics. And what I mean by 'lock' it is simply to prevent that single line of text from being edited or deleted whilst everyting else on the page shoudl be freely editable. Which, by the sound of it, may simply not be possible. Best you could do would be to create the entire footer as a graphic. Then it can't be edited - it's either there in its entirety or it's been deleted. Conceivably, you could have macro code that checks whether the footer-graphic is present and if it's not, then certain things aren't allowed (printing, for example). But you need to be aware that a user can use the Insert/File method to insert any document into another one and, at that point, the last footer in any document will be cut off and any forms protection and macros will be removed. Word 2003 provides IRM (Information Rights Management) that would give you some control over this. And Word 2007 has Content Controls, which would probably be the best bet. But neither of these is an option, given the version restrictions you cite. 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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