Forms Template Problems

[Mari Christie]

I am creating a form template in Word, but it will not
give me the option to "Protect Document," which is
required to make the form fillable. Can someone tell me
what I am doing wrong?

Mari

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Hi Mari,

Which versyon of Word are you using?

How are you trying to protect the form? Menu choice under Tools? Clicking on
the lock on the Forms toolbar?

What happens when you create a blank new document, can you protect that?
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[Mari Christie]

I am in Word2000 and I have tried both the menu choice and
the forms toolbar. When I open a new blank document, it
allows me to Protect...

Thank you for your attention.

Mari

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Hi Mari,

Do you have the Header and Footer pane open? The forms toolbar is disable
when the Headers and Footers toolbar is active.

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benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Mari Christie]

Do you have the Header and Footer pane open? The forms
toolbar is disable

when the Headers and Footers toolbar is active.

Nope, the Header and Footer toolbar is not on.

However, I just solved it by pasting into a new document.
I am wondering if it has problems doing "Protect Document"
after the doc has been made into a template?

Well, anyway, I figured it out finally... thanks so much
for all of the help. I will be saving this site in my
favorites...

Thanks again, Mari

 

[Mari Christie]

Well, I thought I solved the problem, but now it won't
allow my form templates to actually be used... grrrrr...

Does this have anything to do with not using a table to
set up my form? I am totally baffled. I am beginning to
assume that this is just yet another bug in MSWord that
has no explanation or solution...

Mari

 

[JGM]

Hi Mari,

Are you in Design mode?
Check if you are by displaying the Control Toolbox from the View > Toolbar
menu.

HTH
Cheers!

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Hi Mari,

This morning I came across a situation where someone sent me a template with
formfields in it that had macros in it as well. I opened it with the macros
disabled and in that mode, the forms toolbar was not enabled.

Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Charles Kenyon]

It should _not_ have anything to do with using or not using a table to set
up your form. Using a table or not is a matter of how you want your form to
look, not whether it can be used as a form. When you say it won't allow your
form to be used, what do you mean? What do you do to try to use the form?
What does Word do that causes problems?

Take a look at <URL:
http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms> especially Dian
Chapman's series of articles.

Hope this helps,

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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
<URL: http://addbalance.com/word/index.htm>

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
<URL: http://addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm>

See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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[Doug Smith]

JGH

THANKS!!!!!

I was having this very problem and your suggestion was exactly what I needed. I have been pulling out what little is left of my hair trying to get my form protected

Thanks for helping!

Dou