Password Protection AND Digital Signature

[Tom Schmidt]

I created a 2002 Word doc that is (1) password protected - forms, and (2)
I've also applied a digital signature from VeriSign - personal certificate.
Therefore the keyboard is basically disabled and the digital signature will
be lost IF a user were to do your basic File Insert routine to bypass the
password protection.

I have two hyperlinks in the document, which should be active when you roll
over and hit ctrl plus click, but they are not.

I have someone else's Word doc that is also password protected and digitally
signed. The hyperlinks in it work fine. I do not know what version of Word
they used to create the document.

Questions: Why don't my hyperlinks work and how can I pragmatically
determine how 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2007 handle / react to password
protection with a digital signature applied? Thanks.

 

[Jay Freedman]

I don't know how the digital signature plays into this, but hyperlinks never
work in a protected form unless you embed them in a macrobutton field and
provide a macro, as shown in
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/HLinksInForms.htm.

The problem is that Word doesn't respond to clicks in protected areas of the
text except in macrobuttons, and there is no form field that supports
hyperlinks.

All of this is independent of the version of Word, from Word 97 onward. It
also has nothing to do with whether you give the forms protection a
password.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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