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Using drop down fields within a protected section
Please forgive me if this question is confusing; however, are there
restrictions on whether you can create a drop down field within a protected document? This is the situation...I am creating a document that is protected as a form document so that only certain sections can be edited. Within that form document, in an un-protected section, I created a table, and I want to have a drop-down field of choices of what that cell can be populated with. Is there a way to do this in Word? |
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Hi janatello,
No, the dropdown formfield has to go into a protected Section (which can be as little as one row in a table), otherwise it won't work. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] ------------------------- "janatello" wrote in message ... Please forgive me if this question is confusing; however, are there restrictions on whether you can create a drop down field within a protected document? This is the situation...I am creating a document that is protected as a form document so that only certain sections can be edited. Within that form document, in an un-protected section, I created a table, and I want to have a drop-down field of choices of what that cell can be populated with. Is there a way to do this in Word? |
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On Oct 10, 4:04 pm, "macropod" wrote:
Hi janatello, No, the dropdown formfield has to go into a protected Section (which can be as little as one row in a table), otherwise it won't work. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] ------------------------- "janatello" wrote in ... Please forgive me if this question is confusing; however, are there restrictions on whether you can create a drop down field within a protected document? This is the situation...I am creating a document that is protected as a form document so that only certain sections can be edited. Within that form document, in an un-protected section, I created a table, and I want to have a drop-down field of choices of what that cell can be populated with. Is there a way to do this in Word? speaking of which, is there a way to delete the information in a protected section of perhaps make it unprotected? |
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On Oct 10, 4:04 pm, "macropod" wrote: , is there a way to delete the information in a protected section of perhaps make it unprotected? Depending on how the formfields are set up, unprotecting then re-protecting the document will do this - or at least set the formfields to their default values. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] ------------------------- |
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Using drop down fields within a protected section
Is there a way to protect a column instead of a row? I do not want to lock
down the row, because there is information that I need the users to fill in. "macropod" wrote: Hi janatello, No, the dropdown formfield has to go into a protected Section (which can be as little as one row in a table), otherwise it won't work. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] ------------------------- "janatello" wrote in message ... Please forgive me if this question is confusing; however, are there restrictions on whether you can create a drop down field within a protected document? This is the situation...I am creating a document that is protected as a form document so that only certain sections can be edited. Within that form document, in an un-protected section, I created a table, and I want to have a drop-down field of choices of what that cell can be populated with. Is there a way to do this in Word? |
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