Help! My Unprotect is Greyed Out!!

[raehippychick]

Hi

I have created a few protected forms in Word 2000 which work fine, but
two of them will not allow me to unprotect them - both the
tools>unprotect and the padlock on forms toolbar are greyed out

I need to update these forms now but can't do it - it won't even let me
select all, copy and paste to try it over

The forms that I am having trouble with have mainly standard forms bits
in but also both have an unprotected section where I need users to
insert a file

Also when I open the document the Control Toolbox is on the screen

Anyone got any ideas please??!!!

Many thanks in advance

Raehippychick

 

[Charles Kenyon]

The presence of the Control Toolbox indicates to me that you used something
from that toolbox in your form. Those controls are incompatible with
protected forms. If you close the toolbox are your menu commands available?

If not, running the following statement in the immediate box of the vba
editor (Alt-F11) should unlock the form:

ActiveDocument.Unprotect

You will need to clear out any controls from the Toolbox and then probably
copy your contents into a new template to avoid having the Toolbox pop up on
opening. By the way, your users should be creating new documents based on a
template, not opening your form directly.


What you are talking about is what Word calls an "online form." 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. You may also want to look at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm.

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




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