Templates-Locking

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Is there a way to lock only parts of a template? I would like give the
person filling out the form the option to click a button and email the form
back to me. HELP????

I have if the template is unlock a hyperlink will work to email the
template. Once the template is locked the email link won't work.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
Use a custom toolbar with a button or menu item that calls your macro. BTW
macrobutton fields do work in protected forms, but not hyperlinks.

You can protect only parts of a form, but there are better ways of
accomplishing what you want. What you are talking about 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




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Charle, thank you for the information.

People come to me for help, but after looking at all this information, I
feel like an over-whelmed novice. There is soooo much I did not know even
existed and not enough time to search it all. Is there a place to go to find
out the best way to fix my form so the people can email it back to me?

When looking at MS Word website they are very generic and simple. The other
sites I went into did not include emailing the form. Is this something that
is not done? And if it is not done, can you tell me why? I put this
question out to three different groups and you are the only person that has
given information that seems as if it will even begin to answer my question.

I appreciate any help you can give.

Jo Ann Cabiao
 
The only way I know to have a button of any sort email a form is with a
macro. To me, it is simpler to put instructions in or with the form on how
to attach it to an email message. (The key instruction being to first save
the form to the hard drive.) The reason I say this is because in most
corporate environments, your macro is not going to be allowed to run.

Asking "How do I fix my form?" is a lot like asking "How do I fix my car, or
my computer?" As you pointed out, they are complex.

If you are going to be using Word much, it is worth your time to spend time
up front learning it. The articles I recommended will take you step by step
through building forms.
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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




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