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Problems Protecting a Document
I have a document that contains 3 sections:
Section 1 contains a table with form fields Section 2 contains a table with no form fields Section 3 contains just body text I clicked on Tools, Protect Document..., but all the choices are grayed out. I can't select anything in the Protect Document task pane. Can anyone tell me why? Thanks. Bob |
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Problems Protecting a Document
After some searching, I found the following 2005 post by Beth Melton which
fixed the problem: I finally found the root of the issue. Apparently at one time the template was a Form Letter for Mail Merge. It no longer has an attached data source but the Main Document Setup is still "Letter". To rectify: - Go to View/Toolbars/Mail Merge - On the Mail Merge toolbar locate "Main Document Setup" - Select "Normal Word document" - Click OK Result: The Protect Document task pane will now be enabled. I haven't quite decided if this is a bug, since you can still use VBA and ActiveDocument.Protect to protect the template, but I'll pass this information along. Thanks for your help and sticking with the thread. As I noted previously, I suspect there have been others encountering the same issue so with your help we now have a solution. :-) Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP "Bob" wrote: I have a document that contains 3 sections: Section 1 contains a table with form fields Section 2 contains a table with no form fields Section 3 contains just body text I clicked on Tools, Protect Document..., but all the choices are grayed out. I can't select anything in the Protect Document task pane. Can anyone tell me why? Thanks. Bob |
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