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I have created a "fillable" form through the use of a series of tables
containing text fields and check box fields from the forms toolbox. However, I now find that I am unable to protect the document. The "lock" icon on the forms toolbar is greyed out and unavailable. Where have I gone wrong in this regard? Thanks in advance - Rod |
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On Wed, 30 May 2007 15:19:00 -0700, RPMitchal
wrote: I have created a "fillable" form through the use of a series of tables containing text fields and check box fields from the forms toolbox. However, I now find that I am unable to protect the document. The "lock" icon on the forms toolbar is greyed out and unavailable. Where have I gone wrong in this regard? Thanks in advance - Rod One possibility is mentioned he http://groups.google.com/group/micro...e75235b?hl=en& Try selecting everything in the form except the last paragraph mark, copying it, and pasting it into a new blank document. -- 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. |
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Jay:
Thanks so much for passing along the accompanying link. Does the possibility exist that one must create an isolated template upon which to base a protected form? Having subsequently read through some of the other posts, I tried establishing a template first and then basing the protected form upon it and the problem seems to have been resolved. Could that indeed be a factor when creating a protected form? Sincerely yours - Rod "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2007 15:19:00 -0700, RPMitchal wrote: I have created a "fillable" form through the use of a series of tables containing text fields and check box fields from the forms toolbox. However, I now find that I am unable to protect the document. The "lock" icon on the forms toolbar is greyed out and unavailable. Where have I gone wrong in this regard? Thanks in advance - Rod One possibility is mentioned he http://groups.google.com/group/micro...e75235b?hl=en& Try selecting everything in the form except the last paragraph mark, copying it, and pasting it into a new blank document. -- 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. |
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Although it isn't _required_ that you base a protected form on a unique
template, it's certainly my recommendation that you do so. The reason that a new template resolved your problem was that the original form document was probably damaged in some way, whereas the new template has no damage. Although the same type of damage could eventually occur in a template, it's much less likely because you don't usually edit a template repeatedly. -- 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. RPMitchal wrote: Jay: Thanks so much for passing along the accompanying link. Does the possibility exist that one must create an isolated template upon which to base a protected form? Having subsequently read through some of the other posts, I tried establishing a template first and then basing the protected form upon it and the problem seems to have been resolved. Could that indeed be a factor when creating a protected form? Sincerely yours - Rod "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2007 15:19:00 -0700, RPMitchal wrote: I have created a "fillable" form through the use of a series of tables containing text fields and check box fields from the forms toolbox. However, I now find that I am unable to protect the document. The "lock" icon on the forms toolbar is greyed out and unavailable. Where have I gone wrong in this regard? Thanks in advance - Rod One possibility is mentioned he http://groups.google.com/group/micro...e75235b?hl=en& Try selecting everything in the form except the last paragraph mark, copying it, and pasting it into a new blank document. -- 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. |
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Thanks much Jay.
"Jay Freedman" wrote: Although it isn't _required_ that you base a protected form on a unique template, it's certainly my recommendation that you do so. The reason that a new template resolved your problem was that the original form document was probably damaged in some way, whereas the new template has no damage. Although the same type of damage could eventually occur in a template, it's much less likely because you don't usually edit a template repeatedly. -- 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. RPMitchal wrote: Jay: Thanks so much for passing along the accompanying link. Does the possibility exist that one must create an isolated template upon which to base a protected form? Having subsequently read through some of the other posts, I tried establishing a template first and then basing the protected form upon it and the problem seems to have been resolved. Could that indeed be a factor when creating a protected form? Sincerely yours - Rod "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2007 15:19:00 -0700, RPMitchal wrote: I have created a "fillable" form through the use of a series of tables containing text fields and check box fields from the forms toolbox. However, I now find that I am unable to protect the document. The "lock" icon on the forms toolbar is greyed out and unavailable. Where have I gone wrong in this regard? Thanks in advance - Rod One possibility is mentioned he http://groups.google.com/group/micro...e75235b?hl=en& Try selecting everything in the form except the last paragraph mark, copying it, and pasting it into a new blank document. -- 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. |
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