protected documents and mailmerge

[batty6842]

I use Office 2k at work and am looking for a solution to meet a variety of
needs. I need to keep documents password protected so they are not editable
yet allow for a section that is editable for a mailmerge. I know in excel you
can select certain cells to be protected and others not to be. Is there a way
to do something similar to accomplish this?

 

[Anne Troy]

You can protect PARTS of documents by inserting continuous section breaks.
Then, when you go to Tools-->Protect document, and choose Forms, you'll have
the option to choose the sections you want to protect.
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~Anne Troy

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[Charles Kenyon]

Word 2003 provides much more in the way of protection options.

Mailmerge and forms are inherently incompatible. I do use them together
sometimes but it is really a kludge.

Do you actually need formfields that someone can fill in or are you just
trying to protect your document? If the latter, you could put together a
macro that would unprotect your document, perform the merge and then
reprotect the resulting document. You could provide for user input with
fill-in fields during the merge.

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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[Charles Kenyon]

If you unprotect the document and run the merge, your formfields will be
disabled, even when the document is reprotected after the merge. This is why
I asked you about the purpose of the protection.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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