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Password Protect & Form
I'm creating a form template. The form has a date picker and a rich text box
control on it. When I protect and allow only form parts to be changed - on a regular document you can change the date picker but you can't enter text in the rich text box. Any ideas? Working with office 2007. |
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Password Protect & Form
"Protect document" should not be used with content controls (which is what
the rich text box and date picker are). It's meant only for the legacy form controls on the single Legacy Tools button in that group. Unprotect the document. Then select all the text and content controls -- or at least the parts of the text that you want to protect -- then click the Group button and choose the Group command from its menu. Unlike forms protection, you will be able to put the cursor into the protected text areas. But if you try to edit or format the text there, it won't happen; the status bar will say "This modification is not allowed because the selection is locked." Only the content controls will work -- but they'll all work. -- 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. Jess wrote: I'm creating a form template. The form has a date picker and a rich text box control on it. When I protect and allow only form parts to be changed - on a regular document you can change the date picker but you can't enter text in the rich text box. Any ideas? Working with office 2007. |
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