Individual Cell Protection

[DirectorDave]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC

I am creating a Form for an end user. I understand how to protect the whole document so they don't accidentally type in those fields...but what I don't understand is how to make certain fields editable for the End User input.

In other words, I want the text 'YOUR NAME' in one field (protected), then a blank space for them to type in their name (unprotected).

Thoughts?

 

[John McGhie]

When you protect the document for "Forms", only the form fields will be
editable.

If you want to protect parts that do not have fields in them, surround them
with section breaks. You could potentially have hundreds of editable
regions in the document, each one needs to be encased in a pair of section
breaks (normally, "Continuous" section breaks so that you do not interrupt
pagination).

You can then protect only specific section numbers. The ones you protect,
are not editable. The ones you do not protect, are editable.

Personally, I wouldn't bother: this can be very fiddly to set up, and the
protection mechanism is very flaky in Word 2008. Most users will have the
brains NOT to type over "YOUR NAME:"

Cheers

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC

I am creating a Form for an end user. I understand how to protect the whole
document so they don't accidentally type in those fields...but what I don't
understand is how to make certain fields editable for the End User input.

In other words, I want the text 'YOUR NAME' in one field (protected), then a
blank space for them to type in their name (unprotected).

Thoughts?

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