Microsoft Word 2000

[QAJason21]

I created a document in Word 2000. Saved as I wanted it to be saved and
decreased the security level to Medium to allow to enable macros. The
document contains "text boxes" for customers to fill in info. I lock it and
protect it. When I send to myself it acts as I intended and I can tab to all
check boxes and text boxes and fill in as I want. But when I send it to
others in my office they open it and it is in design mode and cannot fill in
the text boxes or check the check boxes. You click on one of the text boxes
and it frames it as if you were in design mode. I want to be able to send
this form out to customers to have them fill in the info and send back. What
am I doing wrong and how can I fix it? Please help.

 

[Stefan Blom]

It seems as if you have been using ActiveX controls (from the Control
Toolbox toolbar)? Note that it isn't sufficient to change the macro security
for your Word installation; it must be done for everyone using the form.
Therefore, it is usually easier to make use of text form fields (from the
Forms toolbar) instead. With that type of forms, macro security won't be an
issue.

 

[QAJason21]

I like the appearance of the text boxes. I saved the form on a shared drive
so anyone can access it. What do I have to do to it so everyone is prompted
to enable macros and navigate through the text boxes as I can and as I
intended?

 

[Stefan Blom]

If all the users are on the same network, asking them to change the macro
security level (or having the administrator do so) wouldn't be that
difficult. Using digitally signed documents would perhaps be the safest
solution (but I don't remember if that was even a possibility in Word 2000).

No matter which approach is taken, it would require manual "intervention."
If it didn't, macro security wouldn't be very secure, of course.

See also the following article:

Effectively Using ActiveX Form Controls in Microsoft Word
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa140269(office.10).aspx