Design Mode OFF when open Word document on a different computer

[Guest]

Hello,

I am trying to make a simple survey in Microsoft Word - to send to unsavvy
Word people. In my survey I have some check boxes and radio buttons.

Because of the macros thing - Word always opens in Design Mode. I know that
you can avoid this by setting Macro Security to Medium. That works on my
computer, but I want to e-mail this survey to other people. Their Macro
security will still be set to High, my survey will open in Design mode and my
unsavvy word people won't know what to do. I think it poor form (unfriendly)
to make them turn it off themselves.

Any suggestions??

 

[Jay Freedman]

There are only two ways to be sure you won't trigger Design Mode on
other computers.

One way is to use a certificate from a certificate authority (Verisign
or Thawte, or if your company has a root authority server) to
digitally sign the document. Even with that, each user would have to
accept the certificate, and that would probably confuse a significant
number of users.

The other way is not to use anything from the Control Toolbox, which
is what causes Word to think there are macros in the document. You
could use items from the Forms toolbar instead, and protect the
document for forms to make the form fields active
(http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=22). Since the
Forms toolbar doesn't offer any option button, you'd have to replace
the option buttons with dropdown fields.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Guest]

This is EXACTLY what I needed to know. Thanks Jay