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glendeek - 10 Mar 2005 21:07 GMT

i am creating a MS Word 2000 form .dot. I want to "protect document > forms"
so that people can tab through and answer question. The document was
actually two documents that I put together and are kind of in different
formats. My "protect document" selection is Greyed-out... What does this
mean?

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glendeek - 13 Mar 2005 16:25 GMT

Anyone??? I am confused as to what can cause a document to not be able to be
protected????

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 27 Mar 2005 17:05 GMT

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> i am creating a MS Word 2000 form .dot. I want to "protect document > forms"
> so that people can tab through and answer question. The document was
> actually two documents that I put together and are kind of in different
> formats. My "protect document" selection is Greyed-out... What does this
> mean?

This is NOT a VBA question, which is why you've not gotten an answer.

My guess would be that you've use the Control Toolbox to create the form, thus
triggering macro security. You either need to set macro security to "Middle", so
that you can tell Word to enable the fields. Or you need to create your form
using FORM fields, from the Forms toolbar.

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

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glendeek - 27 Mar 2005 17:23 GMT

oops, sorry for wrong forum... thanks for the info... i will double check all
that... being new at this, I do not know where to seek help sometimes... :-)

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