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Word 2007 Forms
In Word 2003 it was a simple toggle of the lock to protect and unprodect a
form doument. I need to update a form I created in Word 2003. When I click the Document Protect button, the panel says that the document is protected from unintentional editting. I tried the Stop Protection button, but it requires a password, which I don't have, since I never password protected the file. What's the missing trick for updating a legacy form in 2007? |
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You can add the Lock icon to the Quick Access Toolbar by going into
the Customize dialog and looking in the category Commands Not In the Ribbon. But that won't help if the form protection has somehow acquired an unknown password (or at least it thinks it has). You'd get the same popup from the Lock icon that you get from the task pane. Fortunately, form protection passwords are easy to remove. Open a new blank document and use Insert Object Text From File to insert the text of the form document into it. See the illustrated instructions at http://www.gmayor.com/Remove_Password.htm, in the section "Alternative method". -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 17:05:01 -0800, The_Best_is_Simple wrote: In Word 2003 it was a simple toggle of the lock to protect and unprodect a form doument. I need to update a form I created in Word 2003. When I click the Document Protect button, the panel says that the document is protected from unintentional editting. I tried the Stop Protection button, but it requires a password, which I don't have, since I never password protected the file. What's the missing trick for updating a legacy form in 2007? |
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