form protection question

[b the builder]

i am currently building forms in word. up until now everything was going
super, however, one of my form documents has lost the "protect form"
function. the document is not protected. i can add form fields & format them,
but i cant toggle between protect & unprotect to test the form or finalize it
for use. the little lock icon on my forms tool bar seems to be disabled. if i
copy & paste any of the information from the nonfunctional form to a working
form or new document, the protection capabilities of that form get lost as
well.
any suggestions as to how i might fix this, otherwise i will need to start
from scratch.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Checkout tools > protect document > editing restrictions and ensure that the
document is protected for forms.

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[Sales Asst.]

I appear to be having the same problem with Word 2007. I had a form created
and protected. When I went in to make changes the ability to protect the
document was not available. The "Yes, Start Enforcing Protection" was not
lit up.

I have no Formatting restrictions and I have chosen Allow Filling in forms.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Look on the Developer ribbon, in the Controls group. If the Design Mode
button is highlighted, click it to turn it off. Protection isn't available
while it's turned on.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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