Prevent changes to a document

[Jerry Anderson]

I have a document that serves as a template, and I don't want users to be
able to change it. I thought about having a "Save As" dialog box appear upon
opening. This would at least prompt the user to save the document to another
location prior to making any changes, thereby protecting the integrity of the
original document. (By the way, I don't know how to do this!)
Anybody have any other ideas?

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

The document should be saved as a template in the users template folder and
then they should use File>New and select that template as the basis for the
documents that they want to create.

Then your template will not be overwritten.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP