I hope you are not sending important documents out to clients/customers in
Word format, period. Send them as printed documents or as pdf files.

If you do that, you can include instructions, mark them as "hidden text" and
they won't print or show up in the pdf version.
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"Philamental" wrote in message
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"Jezebel" wrote in message
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It will work as effectively as any 'enforced' method you might try. In
theory you could put each heading and non-heading block in its own
section, then protect the heading sections. But you'll end up with a
shambles of a document in which the headers and footers behave strangely;
and you'll *really* confuse novice users. And the power users will defeat
your controls (which is trivially easy) on principle.


Thanks for your reply, Jezebel.

I understand what you're saying about putting the 'instruction' on the top
of the page, but I don't think it would be possible as the document is an
official one which will be sent to important clients, and such text would
be inappropriate to send out.

I'll have a quick look into your suggestion about protecting sections, but
I agree that it does seem a pretty OTT solution that may make more
problems than it solves.

When I originally posted, I expected there would not be a simple solution
but I just needed to make sure.

Thanks again for your reply.

Phil