Locking objects in templates

[tfbrown]

I am making a pdf newsletter. While the user I am making it for needs
to be able to input text, I need to lock the logo and and company
informational in the template so it doesn't get changed. Is this
possible (I am using Mac Office 2004)?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Depends....

If you can put a section break between the logo etc, and the user's entry
points, you can use Tools | Protect Document to just protect one section.

However, it may also be possible to anchor the logo, etc in the
header/footer, and then it will be more difficult to accidentally change
them, but not locked in any way.

 

[Beth Rosengard]

I'm a little confused here but let's see what we can do.

First of all, if it's a PDF, it can't be edited. That's the whole point of
PDFs.

However you *can* lock the logo and company information in a Word template
or document, if that's what you mean. Insert a continuous section break
after the logo/info.

Go to Tools> Protect Document> Forms> Sections. Check the section(s) you
want protected which in this case is probably section 1.

One problem, though. Before you "Save as PDF" in Word's Print Dialog, you
*may* have to get rid of the section break. Word has a bad habit of
sometimes splitting a document into two parts when there's a section break
(especially if there are also different margins or page orientation). See
the other current thread on this newsgroup called "Saving multi page doc as
pdf".

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