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track changes in protected documents
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I'm designing a minutes-of-meeting template for my company and bumped into this problem: I'd like to have an header page with the functionality typical of a forms section and then a "fully-editable" body document. I divided the document into 2 sections and I configured the document protection to be used only in the first one. However, after I have set the protection on, it prevents me from, for example, formating the borders and shading of cells in the table I have in the 2nd section; I'm unable to turn the track changes on; I can't edit the document properties. Is there anything I can do to avoid these protections on the "unprotected" section of the document? Thank you. -- pedro |
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track changes in protected documents
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:31:01 -0800, "pedro"
wrote: Hi. I'm designing a minutes-of-meeting template for my company and bumped into this problem: I'd like to have an header page with the functionality typical of a forms section and then a "fully-editable" body document. I divided the document into 2 sections and I configured the document protection to be used only in the first one. However, after I have set the protection on, it prevents me from, for example, formating the borders and shading of cells in the table I have in the 2nd section; I'm unable to turn the track changes on; I can't edit the document properties. Is there anything I can do to avoid these protections on the "unprotected" section of the document? Thank you. You can get around some of the limitations, such as cell borders and document properties, by writing macros that unprotect the document, perform the desired action or show the dialog, and immediately reprotect the document. Two examples of this are the spell-checking macro at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...ProtectDoc.htm and the form_picture.dot template you can download from http://jay-freedman.info. This technique won't work with Track Changes, though, because there isn't any discrete action your macro can do between unprotecting and reprotecting. -- 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. |
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