Protecting specific areas of a document in Word 2002

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JLindell - 10 Mar 2005 17:59 GMT

I'm trying to create a reporting form that can be used by several employees
to generate reports in a uniform manner. My problem is that some of the less
computer literate members of our staff unintentionally change portions of the
form that they shouldn't. I've tried protecting the form and using text
boxes but we need to have spell check and other text editing abilities that
text boxes don't seem to allow. Can anyone help me?

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 19 Mar 2005 20:58 GMT

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

> I'm trying to create a reporting form that can be used by several employees
> to generate reports in a uniform manner. My problem is that some of the less
> computer literate members of our staff unintentionally change portions of the
> form that they shouldn't. I've tried protecting the form and using text
> boxes but we need to have spell check and other text editing abilities that
> text boxes don't seem to allow. Can anyone help me?

Upgrade to Word 2003 is really the only good answer... That has exactly the
protection features you require.

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

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NikkiB - 26 Jul 2007 17:02 GMT

Hi- I was wondering how you are able to accomplish this type of protection on
Word 2003?

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