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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / March 2005protected documents and mailmerge
I use Office 2k at work and am looking for a solution to meet a variety of needs. I need to keep documents password protected so they are not editable yet allow for a section that is editable for a mailmerge. I know in excel you can select certain cells to be protected and others not to be. Is there a way to do something similar to accomplish this? You can protect PARTS of documents by inserting continuous section breaks. Then, when you go to Tools-->Protect document, and choose Forms, you'll have the option to choose the sections you want to protect. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.piersontech.com www.mrexcel.com > I use Office 2k at work and am looking for a solution to meet a variety of > needs. I need to keep documents password protected so they are not editable > yet allow for a section that is editable for a mailmerge. I know in excel you > can select certain cells to be protected and others not to be. Is there a way > to do something similar to accomplish this? Unfortunately that button marked "sections" remains grayed out, even when forms is selected. :-/ > You can protect PARTS of documents by inserting continuous section breaks. > Then, when you go to Tools-->Protect document, and choose Forms, you'll have [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > way > > to do something similar to accomplish this? Sorry. I had forgotten to insert the sections first. The actual problem is even with only sections protected the mail merge option is still grayed out when the document is protected, even though the merge fields are not in a protected section. > You can protect PARTS of documents by inserting continuous section breaks. > Then, when you go to Tools-->Protect document, and choose Forms, you'll have [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > way > > to do something similar to accomplish this? If you unprotect the document and run the merge, your formfields will be disabled, even when the document is reprotected after the merge. This is why I asked you about the purpose of the protection.  SignatureCharles 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! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. > Sorry. I had forgotten to insert the sections first. > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] >> way >> > to do something similar to accomplish this? Word 2003 provides much more in the way of protection options. Mailmerge and forms are inherently incompatible. I do use them together sometimes but it is really a kludge. Do you actually need formfields that someone can fill in or are you just trying to protect your document? If the latter, you could put together a macro that would unprotect your document, perform the merge and then reprotect the resulting document. You could provide for user input with fill-in fields during the merge. SignatureCharles 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! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. >I use Office 2k at work and am looking for a solution to meet a variety of > needs. I need to keep documents password protected so they are not [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > way > to do something similar to accomplish this?
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