Protect Document - Remove Editing Restrictions

[dan.KSU]

VBA Gods;

I recently created a template that uses editing restriction from the
Protect Document Task Pane. In my code I want to be able to remove
that protection for a specific user which I can do. The only caveat is
that I am unable to remove the Highlighted Unprotected portions of the
document. The only way I am able to do this is through the Task Pane
by unselectting the Editing Restrictions checkbox and answering "yes"
to the dialog pop-up which asks if I want to ignore exceptions. This
is what I want to do in the code.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance for your help

 

[Cindy M.]

I recently created a template that uses editing restriction from the

Protect Document Task Pane. In my code I want to be able to remove
that protection for a specific user which I can do. The only caveat is
that I am unable to remove the Highlighted Unprotected portions of the
document. The only way I am able to do this is through the Task Pane
by unselectting the Editing Restrictions checkbox and answering "yes"
to the dialog pop-up which asks if I want to ignore exceptions. This
is what I want to do in the code.

Try it with a variation on this:

ActiveWindow.View.ShadeEditableRanges

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[dan.KSU]

Try it with a variation on this:

ActiveWindow.View.ShadeEditableRanges

Yes, I tried this. If the document is still protected and I execute:

ActiveWindow.View.ShadeEditableRanges = False,

the shading (highlighting) goes away, however, once I stop protection
the shading reappears grayed.

If I unprotect the document first then execute the above line, nothing
happens.

Good suggestion, but can you think of any others?

Thanks again,

Daniel

 

[dan.KSU]

Any other ideas on this?