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MS Office Forum / Publisher / General MS Publisher Questions / October 2008How do you lock a page's content?
In working in Publisher 2007 I can not lock the images and text to each pape. I have a 10 page document I am adding graphics and text. Your help will be appricated. You cannot lock a Publisher document. You can create 10 different Master pages and put the objects on the Master page. That way when the document is opened the objects cannot be automatically edited by mistake.  SignatureMary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com > In working in Publisher 2007 I can not lock the images and text to each pape. > I have a 10 page document I am adding graphics and text. Your help will be > appricated. May I ask why you want to lock this data? Maybe there's another way to do what you want. SignatureJoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" > In working in Publisher 2007 I can not lock the images and text to each > pape. > I have a 10 page document I am adding graphics and text. Your help will > be > appricated. May I take this one up, please? I too find I would like to 'lock' pages. For instance, I produce a booklet for a production meeting, using Autoflow throughout. I finish it, I think it's perfect, but people want changes. I need to add a page here, delete a page there, move a page from one place to another. When I do that, I find that the booklet has gone completely berserk. The whole thing needs to be taken apart and put together again. Isn't there some way of ensuring that content stays where it's meant to be while you change the stuff around it? > May I ask why you want to lock this data? Maybe there's another way to do > what you want. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > be > > appricated. Yes - send them .pdf files. SignatureJoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" > May I take this one up, please? I too find I would like to 'lock' pages. > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >> > be >> > appricated. Thank you for your quick response. So I produce a booklet in Publisher, I send people pdfs, they respond and ask me to make changes by adding paragraphs, adding and deleting pages and so on; I do this and the booklet is completely ruined and I have to start again, because I wasn't able to lock the pages that didn't need changing. Or is there another way? Thanks > Yes - send them .pdf files. > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > >> > be > >> > appricated. There is no other way. I don't understand why it is important to lock pages if you are not sending the Publisher file. If folks are sending you changes why would you need to edit pages that are okay? SignatureMary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ > Thank you for your quick response. > [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] >> >> > be >> >> > appricated. > There is no other way. I don't understand why it is important to lock pages if > you are not sending the Publisher file. If folks are sending you changes why > would you need to edit pages that are okay? I think what John is trying to say is this: * John sends file to various parties for proofreading and approval * Revisions to be made are submitted * John makes these revisions to the file * Making one small revision on one page throws the layout on other pages into disarray. * Being able to lock the layout of pages would reduce the disarray created by the minor modifications requested. Unfortunately, I don't think there's any way really to avoid this. John: Moving a page with AutoFlow'd content on should change anything. Similarly, adding a page shouldn't affect layout at all (although adding a single left or right page in the middle of a booklet-type publication will obviously make all the left pages and right pages have the wrong layout for their new locations - but locking layout down wouldn't fix that). I can't see how you would expect the text to behave if you delete it - the text has to go somewhere, otherwise you have a big gap in the middle of your text story. SignatureEd Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://ed.mvps.org Thanks, Ed, that's what I meant! John > > There is no other way. I don't understand why it is important to lock pages if > > you are not sending the Publisher file. If folks are sending you changes why [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > it - the text has to go somewhere, otherwise you have a big gap in the > middle of your text story. |
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