I don't know because I didn't have the vba or forms passwords for the global
templates, but how it was done isn't really relevant to the question that was
originally asked. The point was, that the only way to stop the annoying
resizing of the tables in the footers was to work in Normal layout view so
that the footers weren't visible. I don't know if that suggestion is
acceptable to kinduser, but it's something to consider.

Genine

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Probably protected the document for forms.

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"Jezebel" wrote in message
...
There's no way to 'lock footers in code' -- what had they actually done?



"Genine" wrote in message
...
We had this problem one place I worked at. Users could not switch off
the
autofit setting in the table as the footers were locked in code to
prevent
users from inserting anything that didn't conform to house style.
The only way round it was to work in normal layout so you didn't see the
footers.
Don't know if that helps.
Genine

"Jezebel" wrote:

Forget the autosize table. Having broken the footer links between
sections,
simply format each footer, using tabs, for the page width of that
section.


"Kind writer/user/programmer"
wrote in
message ...
Because some pages in my doc are landscape and others are portrait,
I
need
a
footer that more or less automatically resizes: tab settings tend to
create
footer that are either too narrow for one seciont or to wide for
another.

I created a one row, 5-cell table defined as autofit to window so
that
it
would span the page margin-to-margin. This seemed marvelous at
first,
but
it
started jumping back and forth to different sizes at about 3 cycles
per
second.

So, then I tried breaking the footer links between portrait and
landscape
sections, adding about 5 footers to maintain in a 90 page doc.
However,
this
did not resolve the auto-resize issue at all, any given footer
continues
to
"resize," giving the appearance of "vibrating."

How to fix this so doc displays in a stable fashion.