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Default track changes in protected documents

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.

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Default 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.

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