How do I protect/lock an individual cell in a table in WORD?

[dickkpe]

I use tables to create forms for use by others and would like to be able to
lock or protect individual cells in the table from editing by others. How
can I do this in WORD?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks.htm and
especially the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman that this article links to.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

You can't, at least not the same way you can in Excel. You can embed an
Excel worksheet as a table and use Excel controls on it.

If you are inserting fields using the forms toolbar and protecting or
locking the form, you can disable text entry into one or more fields. This
is what Word calls an "online form." Check this in help. For more about
online forms, follow the links at
http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks.htm especially Dian
Chapman's series of articles.

Hope this helps,

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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I use tables to create forms for use by others and would like to be able to
lock or protect individual cells in the table from editing by others. How
can I do this in WORD?

If you have Word 2003 you can protect the document similarly as in Excel:
select ranges and "unlock" them. Earlier versions of Word: see the replies
from Charles and Suzanne.

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

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