[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Bealey

Bealey wrote:
I need to protect a word document used by approx 10 other people at work as
the content should not be altered with, except in specified parts. However,
tthe document is a template and and individuals details are entered by mail
merging from our database (which cannot be changed) so I cannot protect it.
Any ideas on a different way I could look at this?

What exactly do you want protection against? Version of Word?

Mailmerge does never run in a document protected for forms in Word.

You might need code (VBA, .dot) which allows the user, who has just
created a new document based on this template, to enter some data (main
body or special field), fetch the appropriate information from your data
source based on the user data (through mailmerge or not), and then
protects the document for the parts you want it protected.

2cents
Robert
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