Protect areas of a document from editing

[Guest]

Hi

I have a member of staff who wished to write a legal document and have only
ceratain areas that can be edited, eg. name, address, etc. We are running
Office XP and I can't see any functions that will allow me to do this. If
anybody has any ideas it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Joe

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What you are describing is a protected form. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks.htm and especially
the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman that this article links to.

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

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[Graham Mayor]

Create an on-line form. Insert form fields at the places that have variable
text and protect the document. You will then only be able to fill the
fields. It will not protect the document from someone determined to change
it, but it will do what you asked.

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