Protected document: Spell Check and Tables

[schutzer]

I have a password forms protected Word 2008 document that has Table
cells. I am hoping to add two features to these forms, and these
features need to work on PC/Mac versions of Word. The form needs to
stay protected so the overall look is maintained. No electronic data
extraction is occurring from the forms.

(1) The spell check feature needs to work within a protected Table
cell
(2) Part of the form contains a Table, and I would like to allow users
to increase (and possibly even decrease) the number of rows.

Any suggestions/Please help. Thank you.

 

[CyberTaz]

I hate to have to tell you that for requirement #1 you haven't a prayer...
at least not with Word 2008. Even in 2004 & PC versions a complex macro is
required to run spell checking in a protected document ‹ even in an
unprotected section. See this link for details, but since Office 2008 does
not support VBA the macro will do you no good:

http://word.mvps.org/faqs/macrosvba/SpellcheckProtectDoc.htm

(The macro may need to be modified to run in 2004, I'm not sure.)

Requirement #2 is simple enough... Just enclose the table in an unprotected
section of the document. Keep in mind that you can't restrict what a user
can do in an unprotected section, however.

PC Word offers more extensive capabilities in this regard but use of those
features will prevent the form from being usable with a Mac version.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac