Protecting Word documents

[Guest]

I have a document that I have protected with Exceptions and selected the
group Everyone. On my computer it works great - I can edit all but the three
pages that are locked in Exceptions.
However, when I email the document, or post it to our shared drive it locks
the entire document and allows no editing (it states it is locked for
editing).
Also, is this backward compatible? We have several agencies yet to upgrade
to Word 2003. I've saved it to be compatible with 97-2002 versions of Word.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

This feature is found only in Word 2003. Earlier versions will open the
document as completely protected.
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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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[Guest]

thanks Charles. I was afraid of that.

Do you know if a macro or VB script can be written to protect these
exceptions?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

You can protect for forms and only protect parts of a document. This 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. You may also want to look at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm.

Hope this helps,
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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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