The Rich Text content control is not a form field, and by locking the
document for forms you've disabled the content control. The two are not
compatible.
Look in the Word 2007 help for a description of content controls and how to
use them. Here's a hint that's hard to find in the help, though: Replace all
your old form fields with their content control equivalents; when you have
all the controls in place, select the entire document, insert a Rich Text
content control so everything else is nested inside it, and set its
properties to disallow editing or deletion of the control. All the controls
nested inside this big Rich Text control will still operate, so the effect
will be the same as form protection but without all the drawbacks -- for
example, spell-checking still works.
This stuff is not hype. It works (although with a few "version 1.0"
glitches).
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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