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Protected Style snad Mail Merge
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I have created a document template, locked the styles through Protect Document, Formatting restrictions... now I cant mail merge when creating a document based on this template. NEED TO DO THIS!!! Help please! I can unprotect document - but do not want other users to be able to do this as they will modify and add styles etc. Thanks |
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Hi ?B?U2FyYWhfTGVjdHVyZXI=?=,
I have created a document template, locked the styles through Protect Document, Formatting restrictions... now I cant mail merge when creating a document based on this template. NEED TO DO THIS!!! Help please! I can unprotect document - but do not want other users to be able to do this as they will modify and add styles etc. Word 2003, I assume... I'm afraid that any kind of document protection is incompatible with mail merge. Could you please describe in more detail how users should work with this document? Will they be editing before or after the merge? (Or both) Is a macro solution allowed? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) 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 Cindy,
I just wanted to stop users from changing the styles or adding to them within the template - apart from that, they can have full functionality if that makes sense? Macros could be allowed... any suggestions? Thanks for your help Cindy Regards Sarah xx "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?U2FyYWhfTGVjdHVyZXI=?=, I have created a document template, locked the styles through Protect Document, Formatting restrictions... now I cant mail merge when creating a document based on this template. NEED TO DO THIS!!! Help please! I can unprotect document - but do not want other users to be able to do this as they will modify and add styles etc. Word 2003, I assume... I'm afraid that any kind of document protection is incompatible with mail merge. Could you please describe in more detail how users should work with this document? Will they be editing before or after the merge? (Or both) Is a macro solution allowed? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) 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?U2FyYWhfTGVjdHVyZXI=?=,
I just wanted to stop users from changing the styles or adding to them within the template - apart from that, they can have full functionality if that makes sense? Macros could be allowed... any suggestions? You could provide a button in the template, attached to a macro, that - removes the protection - executes the merge - reprotects (or closes) the main merge document - links the result with a different template (so there's no chance they can change the original template) or protects the merge result. The code would look something like this (saved in the template): Sub MergeProtectedDoc() Dim doc as Word.Document Dim docResult as Word.document Set doc = ActiveDocument If doc.ProtectionType wdNoProtection Then doc.Unprotect End If doc.MailMerge.Execute false Set docResult = ActiveDocument doc.Close wdDoNotSaveChanges docResult.AttachedTemplate = NormalTemplate End Sub I have created a document template, locked the styles through Protect Document, Formatting restrictions... now I cant mail merge when creating a document based on this template. NEED TO DO THIS!!! Help please! I can unprotect document - but do not want other users to be able to do this as they will modify and add styles etc. Word 2003, I assume... I'm afraid that any kind of document protection is incompatible with mail merge. Could you please describe in more detail how users should work with this document? Will they be editing before or after the merge? (Or both) Is a macro solution allowed? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) 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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