Graham,
Thanks for the response. After posting the original message it did occur to
me that a password protected Word file can still be viewed, so as you say
that is not a concern. As for the rest of it, I don't see any way to do
what the user is asking. I posted the message just in case there was some
feature of Word with which I am not familiar that would allow us to
accomplish what the user wants, but really, I've been thinking that the user
is going to be out of luck on this one. However, I may be able to suggest
an acceptably alternative, such as copying the data into Excel or something.
I think that's the best avenue to head down at this point.
--Tom
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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The password issue isn't a problem. Obviously she can open the document or
we wouldn't be having this conversation. You can save the document with a
new name without the password, or in the case of a form - see
http://www.gmayor.com/Remove_Password.htm With the document open for
editing, you can add what you want to it. However the rest of the
requirement eludes me.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
Thomas M. wrote:
Word 2003
I work in second tier support and today I got a trouble ticket on
something that I do not think can be done in Word the way the user
wants. I can't even begin to think of how I would explain this, so
I'm just going to cut and paste the text from my trouble ticket.
*** Start of Ticket ***
"Donovan receives a word document that is password protected and he
does not know the password. It is a phone list that includes not only
phone numbers but also addresses for all counties. Donovan would like
to put in field tags that only he can see for his personal notes such
as this employee works Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. He receives
updates for this document periodically throughout the year. He would
like to automatically move his field tags from his current document
to the new updated document. He said in Word Perfect there was a way
to do this. He would like to know the way to do this in Word. Sarah
has tried the merge and compare idea in Word but this does not work
for Donovan. It changes the formatting of the original document and
is more cumbersome to enter his notes. They tried Track changes but
he did not like this idea either for similar reasons.
Sarah describes this as having two layers. The first layer is the
original document and then the second layer is one that overlays the
first with his comments. Donovan is pretty adament that he would like
to be able to do like he did in WordPerfect and tab to the fields he
creates." *** End of Ticket ***
My first thought is that if he doesn't know the password to the
document it seems like a moot point! My second thought is that the
only way to do this is with macros, and we don't write macros for the
end users, so unless the user is able to write the macro himself, he
will basically be out of luck.
However, before responding to the user I thought that I would check
here to see if anyone knows of a way to do what the user wants to
accomplish.
--Tom