Start enforcing protection greyed out

[Jaime]

I found the message below that appears to be the same question I have. I'm
not using any Active X controls and the option is still greyed out. I tried
to find Doug's answer to Rita in another post, but couldn't. Can you help?

Jaime

Subject: Re: Protect Document 2007 7/6/2009 6:53 PM PST

By: Rita In: microsoft.public.word.docmanagement


Stefan, I have no Active X controls in my form but it is still greyed out..
any other suggestions>

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

If the document that you are trying to protect is a mail merge main
document, you will not be able to do it.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Jaime]

It's not a mail merge document. Forgot to say I was in Access 2007, if that
makes a difference. Any other ideas? This is my first time working with
fill-in forms and it's frustrating. I worked through a tutorial which
included creating text fill-ins, numeric fill-ins, and drop-down fill-ins. I
wondered if any of those were Active X, but based on another message I saw
here I figured they weren't, since I inserted them from the Legacy option.
Even so, I deleted the fill-in fields and even then, the start enforcing
protection option was greyed out. Maybe because there weren't any fields?

 

[Beth Melton]

Did you check the Mailings tab, Start Mail Merge and verify it indicates
it's a "Normal Word Document"?

~Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

 

[Stefan Blom]

Assuming that you have inserted only "Legacy Forms" (the top row of items
under Developer tab | Legacy Tools), there should be no ActiveX controls in
your document.

In the Restrict Formatting and Editing pane, did you remember to select
"Allow only this type of editing in the document" and then to choose the
"Filling in forms" option?

 

[JaredHolben]

Just for anyone searching this in the future *as it was the top google result*

Stopping the button being grey'd out:

Office 2010 (hopefully the same way for 2007 not looked yet)

Unselect design mode under the developer tab.

Regards

 

[nas2680]

JAREDHOLBEN - I LOVE YOUR FACE!!! (And thank you )

Just for anyone searching this in the future *as it was the top google result*

Stopping the button being grey'd out:

Office 2010 (hopefully the same way for 2007 not looked yet)

Unselect design mode under the developer tab.

Regards

 

[abhinban]

Dear ,
Check under Developers tab -> in controls section whether the Design mode is highlighted (if it is then left click to unhighlite it the your 'Yes Start Enforcing Protection' will get activated')
Best of luck ...

 

[Saitekman]

Just for anyone searching this in the future *as it was the top google result*

Stopping the button being grey'd out:

Office 2010 (hopefully the same way for 2007 not looked yet)

Unselect design mode under the developer tab.

Regards

I registered just now 06/18/2013 just to tell you Thank you JaredHolben. This was one of the top Google searches to fix this problem and you helped me with one click of a button.

Cheers

 

[jalo]

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Nas2680 and abhinban. I spent ages trying, unsuccessfully, to find this information in the Microloft documentation on Active-x controls (bleh!). Thank heavens for intelligent forum users!