how to find in a locked documents

[Micayla]

I have created a template with lots of lovely fields and
have locked my document so they can be used properly. Now
how do my users use the 'find' option?

 

[Peter Jamieson]

As you have noticed a lot of things don't function when you lock a document.

If the document logically divides into two parts, one with various fields
and one with "free text", and the users only need to search the free text,
you may be able to improve things by putting a continuous section break
between the field part and the free text part, then only locking the section
with the fields.

 

[Micayla]

But if my users want to find a page in which they have
named the table for a client within a large document,
e.g. Prisons Document and each page contains one table
for each prison (the name of which is in one of the
fields) then we cant find the prison like that? Any other
ways to search?
Thanks

 

[Peter Jamieson]

I think it depends on whether you need the search when you are maintaining
the document (In which case I can't think of any particularly obvious way to
do what you want) or only when a new version is complete, in which case you
could unlock the document, select it all and unlink the fields
(ctrl-shift-F9).