Protecting Documents in Word 2003

[Guest]

I am a a new user of Word 2003 and have been trying to protect an ordinary
document (not a form). I find that all the options are greyed out on the
Protect Document taskpane and I'm not able to do anything. Does anybody know
why?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?S2F0aWU=?=,

I am a a new user of Word 2003 and have been trying to protect an ordinary
document (not a form). I find that all the options are greyed out on the
Protect Document taskpane and I'm not able to do anything. Does anybody know
why?

Is the document set up for mail merge, by any chance?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Guest]

No it isn't. It's just an ordinary document.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?S2F0aWU=?=,

No it isn't. It's just an ordinary document.
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Hmmm. So, you can't even tick a checkbox on this task pane?

How about if you hold down CTRL when starting Word, then test with the new document
Word generates?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Guest]

Hi Cindy,

I've tried that but the protection works fine for new documents without
holding down CTRL. It doesn't want to work for existing documents.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?S2F0aWU=?=,

I've tried that but the protection works fine for new documents without
holding down CTRL. It doesn't want to work for existing documents.

Try copying all but the last paragraph mark to a new document. Can you now
protect the new document?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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