I've got someone who wants to protect the original document and the
resulting merged document from being changed in any way other than the
merged fields. Protecting the original doc doesn't work since the resulting
merged doc is read/writable.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Diane

You could use a macro to split the document into individual documents - one
for each record in the data source and protect each one.

Sub splitter()

' splitter Macro

' Macro created by Doug Robbins to save each letter created by a mailmerge
as a separate file.

'modified to protect each document for forms.

Dim i As Long, Source as Document, Target as Document, Letter as Range
Set Source = ActiveDocument
For i = 1 to Source.Sections.Count
Set Letter = Source.Sections(i).Range
Letter.End=Letter.End-1
Set Target = Documents.Add
Target.Range=Letter
Target.Protect wdAllowOnlyFormFields
Target.SaveAs FileName:="Letter" & i
Target.Close
Next i

End Sub


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"d. williams" wrote in message
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I've got someone who wants to protect the original document and the
resulting merged document from being changed in any way other than the
merged fields. Protecting the original doc doesn't work since the
resulting merged doc is read/writable.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Diane