How do I set up a time limit on a test form in Word?

[Scotland Gael]

I have a test form that I want to make available to students via e-mail,
however, I want them to work on it for no more than three hours. I need to
track time entering material or set a limit for when entries can be made from
the time of first opening. Once they start, they should not be able to close
the document and come back to it without the time expiring. Edit time doesn't
work for this purpose.

 

[Karl E. Peterson]

I have a test form that I want to make available to students via
e-mail, however, I want them to work on it for no more than three
hours. I need to track time entering material or set a limit for when
entries can be made from the time of first opening. Once they start,
they should not be able to close the document and come back to it
without the time expiring. Edit time doesn't work for this purpose.

Well, one thought might be to write the start time somewhere in the
registry, then check that as needed. Could be circumvented, but so could
anything. (Locks only stop honest folks, eh?)

 

[Scotland Gael]

Well, one thought might be to write the start time somewhere in the
registry, then check that as needed. Could be circumvented, but so could
anything. (Locks only stop honest folks, eh?)

 

[Scotland Gael]

I will take a look at that. But I was hoping to shut the entry ability down
after a set amount of time.

 

[Karl E. Peterson]

I will take a look at that. But I was hoping to shut the entry
ability down after a set amount of time.

The more I thought about it, using document variables would likely be just
as useful and far easier. (I come from a ClassicVB background, so I tend to
overlook the "obvious" object-model based solutions, and go straight to the
arcane.)

In any event, in order to stop accepting input past a certain point, you
need to first know when that point is reached, eh?