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I need to protect a word document used by approx 10 other people at work as
the content should not be altered with, except in specified parts. However, tthe document is a template and and individuals details are entered by mail merging from our database (which cannot be changed) so I cannot protect it. Any ideas on a different way I could look at this? |
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Hi Bealey
Bealey wrote: I need to protect a word document used by approx 10 other people at work as the content should not be altered with, except in specified parts. However, tthe document is a template and and individuals details are entered by mail merging from our database (which cannot be changed) so I cannot protect it. Any ideas on a different way I could look at this? What exactly do you want protection against? Version of Word? Mailmerge does never run in a document protected for forms in Word. You might need code (VBA, .dot) which allows the user, who has just created a new document based on this template, to enter some data (main body or special field), fetch the appropriate information from your data source based on the user data (through mailmerge or not), and then protects the document for the parts you want it protected. 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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It needs to be protected to make sure the users do not alter the document
content other 1 specified page. Thanks "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote: Hi Bealey Bealey wrote: I need to protect a word document used by approx 10 other people at work as the content should not be altered with, except in specified parts. However, tthe document is a template and and individuals details are entered by mail merging from our database (which cannot be changed) so I cannot protect it. Any ideas on a different way I could look at this? What exactly do you want protection against? Version of Word? Mailmerge does never run in a document protected for forms in Word. You might need code (VBA, .dot) which allows the user, who has just created a new document based on this template, to enter some data (main body or special field), fetch the appropriate information from your data source based on the user data (through mailmerge or not), and then protects the document for the parts you want it protected. 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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I need to protect a word document used by approx 10 other people at work as the content should not be altered with, except in specified parts. However, tthe document is a template and and individuals details are entered by mail merging from our database (which cannot be changed) so I cannot protect it. Any ideas on a different way I could look at this? Word 2007 can do this, using Content Controls instead of forms protection. Beyond that, if the change is prior to the merge, using InsertText fields might work. If the result file needs to be edited, you're going to need a fully programmed interface, and it's not going to be straight forward unless you can avoid mail merge completely and do it all by code. See this article for one possible approach http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=211308 Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |