I've no idea exactly how you did it, but if it wasn't intentionally done by
you or another user most likely an inadvertent trip through the Protect
Document Task Pane is what has caused the problem
You should be able to resolve it if you go to Tools>UnProtect Document...
Hopefully you didn't also "accidently" use a password
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HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
"farrah" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:18C203F4-4F04-4A41-95FE-(E-Mail Removed)...
>i went to change information in one of my documents and i see a message on
> the bottom of the screen that says "this modification is not allowed
> because
> the selection is locked." how do i unlock this setting and how did this
> setting even turn on?