Why is "protect document" option unavailable in tools and forms?

[Guest]

I've made a word 2003 document, but I am unable to uset he protect document
feature either from the tools menu or the forms toolbar. Can anyone tell me
why this is?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?Qmxha3Rob3JuZQ==?=,

I've made a word 2003 document, but I am unable to uset he protect document
feature either from the tools menu or the forms toolbar. Can anyone tell me
why this is?

Could this be a mail merge document, perhaps?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Guest]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?Qmxha3Rob3JuZQ==?=,

Could this be a mail merge document, perhaps?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)


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No if is not a mail merge document, I found why I am unable to protect the
document. Word is opening in VB Design mode.

Why is word automatically opening in Design mode for this document, no other
documents open in design mode except this one or others that i create with
parts of this document.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

I suspect you inserted controls from the Controls Toolbox rather than
formfields from the forms toolbar. You may have to start your document over
from scratch and copy text content into the new document.

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,
--

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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