Forms Protection and Comments

[Olly]

Hi,

My firm has several documents that contain "forms protection". The
protection is for a coversheet in the first section of the document that
contains a few fields.

The rest of the document is completely unprotected but despite this I am
unable to add comments to the unprotected sections.

Does anyone know why this is and is there a workaround? These documents are
used as templates by our users and it would be good to keep the protection in
place in the first section whilst giving them full access to the other
sections.

Thanks very much in advance,

 

[Stefan Blom]

Note that many features are disabled in a protected document; there isn't
much you can do about it.

One way to do what you want is to not use forms protection; instead, you
could restrict the editing of the document to insertion of comments and then
set exceptions for the areas where editing should be allowed (in the
Restrict Formatting and Editing / Protect Document task pane).

Note, however, that you may find it easier not to use editing restrictions
at all. This depends on how you are using those fields on the cover page. If
you simply want to mark a location where data should be entered by the user,
you can use MACROBUTTON fields (see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/tblsfldsfms/UsingMacroButton.htm.)

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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[Olly]

Thanks for your help stefan, I will look into the alternatives you mentioned