Sorting in a protected document?

[Diane]

I have a table where in one of the columns, I have a drop
down menu. Therefore in order to activate it, I have to
protect my document.

However, in another column, I have numbers which need to
sort my table by priorities periodically. If the document
is protected, it will not give me the option to sort.

Is there a way to bypass this?

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi, Diane,

You need to unprotect the document, sort, and reprotect without
resetting the fields. This is similar to the task done by the macro in
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/SpellcheckProtectDoc.htm --
replace the spellchecking code there with sorting code. If you need
help with that, please come back and say which column contains the
numbers to sort.

 

[delusional29]

Sorting in Protected documents

Hi,

I have a similar problem. I created a table with drop down Menus, and I want to be able to "sort the dates" in the left column in ascending order. I would like this to happen automatically, even after people type their entries in. Remember, the document is still protected.

For example...(table looks as follows)
Line 1: 6/12/05*drop down here*text here*drop down here
Line 2: 6/13/05*drop down here*text here*drop down here
Line 3: 6/10/05*drop down here*text here*drop down here

I would like to have the final output to look like this:
Line 1: 6/10/05*drop down here*text here*drop down here
Line 2: 6/12/05*drop down here*text here*drop down here
Line 3: 6/13/05*drop down here*text here*drop down here

Is this possible? Thanks in advance!