How to prevent various task panes from showing?

[Guest]

In Word 2003, how can I prevent the 'Review Formatting' and 'Styles and
Formatting' task panes from showing when a user tries to display it?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Why? The Reveal (not Review) Formatting and Styles and Formatting task panes
offer considerable useful information. Are you ashamed of what they might
reveal?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Management wants to keep a consistency across documents based on this
template. They have specified a font that the users will use. The
requirements for this template is not to change font, font size, spacing,
etc. I already protected the styles, but was wondering if there's a better
way of doing it, such as hiding all the dialogs and panes that can trigger
these changes.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The Reveal Formatting task pane just shows what formatting is applied; there
is no way to change the formatting using that task pane. The Styles and
Formatting task pane can be set to display only the approved styles; if the
document is protected for formatting, users will be able to use only those
styles, which is what is wanted, right?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Correction on my part. The situation is more complicated than what I
explained. Management wants to prevent users from changing most formatting
of the styles (i.e., font color, paragraph spacing, indent). However, a user
is allowed to bold, italicize, and/or underline. I realized that if I
protect the styles, then bold, italicize, etc. will also be disallowed.
So, instead of protecting the styles, I want to prevent certain dialogs
(font, parargraph, etc.) from showing up. I already edited and locked down
the Menu Bar as well as other Toolbars that can display these dialogs or
allow these changes. However, I also need to disallow the Reveal Formatting
Pane from show up. That pane has links to the Font and other dialogs.
Is there a better approach to this? I want to protect the styles, but users
need to bold, for example.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If management wants to allow bold, italics, and underline, then include the
Strong and Emphasis character styles among those allowed, and create an
Underline character style and allow it, too.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

I found another way I can do this. Protect the styles, and add the
WordCommands in my module (i.e., Bold, Italic, Underline, etc.).

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It would be much easier to include the character styles, assigned to the
same keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I, Ctrl+U); I believe this is the way
it is conventionally done.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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