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Can you lock everything on a document except text boxes?
intis there any way you can lock or protect everything on a Word Document
with the exception of TEXT BOXES, so you could email a word doc file to someone and they could enter information into the Text Boxes but not interfere with everything else in the document? |
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Can you lock everything on a document except text boxes?
If you're using a form field text boxes you can password protect the document
for FORMS, the user can enter what ever they want in the text box, but not anywhere else. I don't know of a method that unprotects text boxes produced by the drawing toolbar. -- Kevin Backmann "Firevol" wrote: intis there any way you can lock or protect everything on a Word Document with the exception of TEXT BOXES, so you could email a word doc file to someone and they could enter information into the Text Boxes but not interfere with everything else in the document? |
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Can you lock everything on a document except text boxes?
What I do is use Form fields from the Forms toolbar. Then when you lock the
document the user just tabs to each field to fill it out, but can't touch the locked text. Click on VIEW, TOOLBARS, FORMS. Type some text in a document, then click the first button on the Forms toolbar and then type some more text after that field was inserted. Now lock your document. You'll see you can only type in the part where there is a field code. Hope this is helpful. Someone probably has a better solution, but that is what we do here. Create a Fillable Form. "Firevol" wrote: intis there any way you can lock or protect everything on a Word Document with the exception of TEXT BOXES, so you could email a word doc file to someone and they could enter information into the Text Boxes but not interfere with everything else in the document? |
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Can you lock everything on a document except text boxes?
What you are describing is a protected form. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm and especially the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman that this article links to. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Firevol" wrote in message ... intis there any way you can lock or protect everything on a Word Document with the exception of TEXT BOXES, so you could email a word doc file to someone and they could enter information into the Text Boxes but not interfere with everything else in the document? |
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