Allowing Comments or Tracked changes in a document protected forforms..

[Joshua]

Form in Question:
http://www.jkfweb.com/files/Sale - Early Term RFC.dot

Ok so I developed this form for the company based on there needs.

They rolled it out and now come to find out the legal department needs
to be able to add tracked changes or comments for changes they make.

Apparently they could do this on there old form which was basically a
table without form fields and was complete yuckiness.

I've looked for some obvious methods and found that the WdProtectionType
constants are:

wdAllowOnlyComments
wdAllowOnlyFormFields
wdAllowOnlyReading
wdAllowOnlyRevisions
wdNoProtection

None of these will suit the need to have the form locked except for
comments and forms fields.

Is there some trick I'm missing or it just not possible?

Thanks,

Joshua

 

[Jonathan West]

Form in Question:
http://www.jkfweb.com/files/Sale - Early Term RFC.dot

Ok so I developed this form for the company based on there needs.

They rolled it out and now come to find out the legal department needs to
be able to add tracked changes or comments for changes they make.

Apparently they could do this on there old form which was basically a
table without form fields and was complete yuckiness.

I've looked for some obvious methods and found that the WdProtectionType
constants are:

wdAllowOnlyComments
wdAllowOnlyFormFields
wdAllowOnlyReading
wdAllowOnlyRevisions
wdNoProtection

None of these will suit the need to have the form locked except for
comments and forms fields.

Is there some trick I'm missing or it just not possible?

Its just not possible.


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[Joshua]

Thanks for your Input Jonathan. I just added a comments section at
bottom of form for them to manually type any changes they made.
Hopefully they are ok with that

Joshua