I am setting up a database in which customers will enter their feedback and
in the same form I have a section "for office use only" that will be used by
employees to tabulate information from the upper part of the form. I am
wanting to protect the bottom by password so that only a few trained people
can enter this information. How do I do this? (I already know that I can
protect an entire form, but what about parts of the form?)

One way that you could do this is to disable all of the fields that you want
to protect in the form's design view. Then add a method for the user to
enter the password (i.e. a text box on the current form, a command button
that runs a password verification, etc). If the password is correct, then
you can just enable the fields.

field1.enabled=true
field2.enabled=true

Depending on the names you are using for your fields you could also set up a
loop to enable the fields that you need to protect.

If the fields contain numbers to differentiate them:
For i = 1 to 2
me.controls("field" & i).enabled=true
next i

If the fields have a common string in the names:
Dim ctrl as Control
For Each ctrl In Me.Controls
If ctrl.Name Like "*protected*" Then Me.Controls(ctrl.Name).Enabled =
True
Next ctrl


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HTH
Jason Rice
"Abbe9508" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I am setting up a database in which customers will enter their feedback and
> in the same form I have a section "for office use only" that will be used
> by
> employees to tabulate information from the upper part of the form. I am
> wanting to protect the bottom by password so that only a few trained
> people
> can enter this information. How do I do this? (I already know that I can
> protect an entire form, but what about parts of the form?)