[Scott]

My organization very recently began using Word 07/Vista. Some users in the
department I support heavily rely on autotext. The primary documents they
work with, though, are protected documents (on a cover page, the sections
containing names/addresses are protected, the remaining sections of the
document are unprotected) and I have discovered that the Quick Parts
galleries are "disabled" in protected documents.

I found that entering the first four characters of an autotext name and
pressing F3 will play out the autotext, but many users have a voluminous
number of autotext entries and cannot (or should not) be expected to remember
the name of each.

I experimented with creating a macro to insert an Autotext List field, so I
could run the macro, and in the field inserted in the document right click
and get a list of the available autotext entries, insertable by clicking a
selected one.

The autotext is played out in a field, though, so that attempting to select
a portion of the inserted text for editing/deleting, etc. almost invariably
selects the entire text in the field. One of the more Word experienced users
reported seeing this in another context and had difficulty in accurately
selecting only portions of text, so I can only imagine the cries of outrage I
would hear from the less experienced users... Also, if additional text is
entered following the inserted text (without taking proper precautions), the
additional text is entered in the field, compounding the selection issue.

Completely unprotecting the documents is not an option, but I believe that a
process that would unprotect the document, allow access to Quick Parts, then
re-protect the document, could possibly be viable if it could be done
"securely" - that is without the chance of a user
intentionally/unintentionally gaining access to the protected sections at any
point.

So, my questions a Is there a method I haven't thought of to easily
circumvent the disabling of the Quick Parts galleries in protected documents,
and if not, is there a viable secure method of unprotecting - allowing access
to Quick Parts to insert an autotext entry - then re-protecting the document?

I could possibly get (grumbling) developer support if a programmatic
solution is necessary, but of course, I would prefer a simpler, quicker
solution.

Any and all suggestions will be appreciated.