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Locked word form
I created a form which I was able to unlock via the Control Toolbox (design
view untoggled). When I closed the form after all my edits and reopened it, I could no longer unlock it, either via the form toolbar or the control toolbox toolbar. Most opitons on both are grayed out; I can only view form properties and code. How can I bring back the design view to unlock and edit the form again??? Please help! |
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Locked word form
See "WD2002: Can't Unprotect Protected Form That Contains a Control Toolbox
Control" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=275975 -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Karina M  " Karina M
...I created a form which I was able to unlock via the Control Toolbox (design view untoggled). When I closed the form after all my edits and reopened it, I could no longer unlock it, either via the form toolbar or the control toolbox toolbar. Most opitons on both are grayed out; I can only view form properties and code. How can I bring back the design view to unlock and edit the form again??? Please help! |
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Unless you have a very specific reason to use the Controls toolbox, don't.
Use the forms toolbar instead. The toolbox gives you ActiveX controls which have to be programmed. It will trigger macro warnings and unless used exactly "Karina M " Karina M
...I created a form which I was able to unlock via the Control Toolbox (design view untoggled). When I closed the form after all my edits and reopened it, I could no longer unlock it, either via the form toolbar or the control toolbox toolbar. Most opitons on both are grayed out; I can only view form properties and code. How can I bring back the design view to unlock and edit the form again??? Please help! |
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Unless you have a very specific reason to use the Controls toolbox, don't.
Use the forms toolbar instead. The toolbox gives you ActiveX controls which have to be programmed. It will trigger macro warnings and unless used exactly right, the toolbox will spring up each time you try to use your form. The forms toolbar is for what Word calls an "online form." Check this in help. For more about online forms, follow the links at http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm especially Dian Chapman's series of articles. You may also want to look at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm. Hope this helps, -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Karina M " Karina M
...I created a form which I was able to unlock via the Control Toolbox (design view untoggled). When I closed the form after all my edits and reopened it, I could no longer unlock it, either via the form toolbar or the control toolbox toolbar. Most opitons on both are grayed out; I can only view form properties and code. How can I bring back the design view to unlock and edit the form again??? Please help! |
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Thanks Suzanne and Charles:
One more thing, how do I completely remove a macro from a form so that I do not get prompted to enable or disable it? I checked all of my form fields and there are no macros in the properties. In fact, I deleted the macro that I had created. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See "WD2002: Can't Unprotect Protected Form That Contains a Control Toolbox Control" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=275975 -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Karina M " Karina M
...I created a form which I was able to unlock via the Control Toolbox (design view untoggled). When I closed the form after all my edits and reopened it, I could no longer unlock it, either via the form toolbar or the control toolbox toolbar. Most opitons on both are grayed out; I can only view form properties and code. How can I bring back the design view to unlock and edit the form again??? Please help! |
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You can't really get rid of that prompt once you've encountered it.
What you can, and should do, is make your form a template. Save it as a template. Then set your macro security to trust vba projects in installed templates and add-ins. You won't be prompted when you create a new document based on the template, because it will be trusted. If you send your form to someone else, the macro stays in your template, it doesn't go with the document; so the document won't trigger a macro warning on the recipient's computer either. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Karina M " wrote in message... Thanks Suzanne and Charles: One more thing, how do I completely remove a macro from a form so that I do not get prompted to enable or disable it? I checked all of my form fields and there are no macros in the properties. In fact, I deleted the macro that I had created. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See "WD2002: Can't Unprotect Protected Form That Contains a Control Toolbox Control" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=275975 -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Karina M " Karina M
...I created a form which I was able to unlock via the Control Toolbox (design view untoggled). When I closed the form after all my edits and reopened it, I could no longer unlock it, either via the form toolbar or the control toolbox toolbar. Most opitons on both are grayed out; I can only view form properties and code. How can I bring back the design view to unlock and edit the form again??? Please help! |
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