Cannot Protect Document

[Guest]

I have just installed Word 2003 and have a form I am working on. I have
inserted all of my fields onto the document. I click on Tools, Protection.
The taskpane opens, but does not allow me to click on the "yes, start
enforcing protection" button. It is greyed out.

I changed the Editing restrictions but that didn't work. I had someone else
in the department that is using the same version try it and it worked. I can
open this file into Word 2002 and it will work. I have run an office repair
and it still doesn't work. Is there some add-in I'm missing or what?

Very frustrated in Silverton. Thanks for any help you can offer.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Display the Forms toolbar and click on the padlock button.

What you are talking about is what Word calls an "online form." Check this
in help. For more about online forms, follow the links at
http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks.htm especially Dian
Chapman's series of articles.

Hope this helps,
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

As Charles suggests, if you want to protect the entire document for forms,
the easiest way is using the padlock button on the Forms toolbar. If you
need to protect specific sections, then you'll have to go through the
Protect Document task pane. You must check the box for "Editing
restrictions," then select "Filling in forms." You'll then be able to
specify which section(s) you want to protect. When you've done that, you'll
be able to click on "Yes, Start Enforcing Protection." It may appear gray,
but if you mouse over it, it becomes darker and is clickable.

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

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[Guest]

Thank you both for responding. The padlock button on the toolbar is not
active either. It seems that no matter what choices I am selecting, I cannot
get this file protected unless I open it in Word 2002.

Any other ideas?

Charles, thank you for those links. They are awesome.

As Charles suggests, if you want to protect the entire document for forms,
the easiest way is using the padlock button on the Forms toolbar. If you
need to protect specific sections, then you'll have to go through the
Protect Document task pane. You must check the box for "Editing
restrictions," then select "Filling in forms." You'll then be able to
specify which section(s) you want to protect. When you've done that, you'll
be able to click on "Yes, Start Enforcing Protection." It may appear gray,
but if you mouse over it, it becomes darker and is clickable.

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

 

[Guest]

Did you ever figure it out? I'm having the same problem.

Thank you both for responding. The padlock button on the toolbar is not
active either. It seems that no matter what choices I am selecting, I cannot
get this file protected unless I open it in Word 2002.

Any other ideas?

Charles, thank you for those links. They are awesome.

 

[Guest]

No I didn't. But what did happen is I was not able to open .pdf files that
were attached to emails. I removed Adobe and reinstalled. Did several
reboots and now it seems to be working. I wouldn't have thought they were
related, but maybe somehow they are. I can't think of anything else I did
different on my computer that would have triggered it to work.

Let me know if I can help in any other way. My email is (e-mail address removed).