how to change information in the footer of the protected document

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Ziggy

I have created the form in which I require to change some information in the footer after applying protection for form. If I will use unprotect / protect I am loosing information entered into the form. How I can do it

Regards

Zigg
 
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Peter Hewett

Hi Ziggy

The code you have is probably something like:
ActiveDocument.Protect wdAllowOnlyFormFields

The Protect method can take an additional argument:
ActiveDocument.Protect wdAllowOnlyFormFields, True

This causes Word not to reset the FormFields.

HTH + Cheers - Peter
 

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