protecting p[ortions of a word document...

[Brad Pears]

One of our employees has developed a new contract and has done so in Word
2000. He has now came to me and wants me to "protect" all of the text he has
entered and only allow a user to enter data where he has placed underlines
etc...

Can this type of thing be done in Word 2000 at all? I know you can protect
and entire document but I have never seen where you can protect text here
and there in a document...

Thanks, Brad

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can make this into a protected form, with form fields for data entry,
but the protection is easily removed. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks.htm and especially
the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman that this article links to.

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

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[Brad Pears]

When you say "easily removed" do you mean that any user can just simply go
in and turn off the protection?? That wouldn't be very good as this is a
contract I am trying to do up - and I can;t have users messing up the
verbiage!

Brad

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Anyone can use Tools | Unprotect Document. You can password protect the
document for forms, which disables this command, and most users (judging
from the number of questions here) don't know that this protection can be
removed by inserting the form into a fresh document. Did you read the
referenced articles?

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

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[Brad Pears]

ok great... That should work for me then...

I haven't had a chance to read all the links yet. Guess I should've done
that first!

Brad