Track Changes Adds Weird Text While Document is Protected

[Hammad]

Hi All,
I am Using Office 2003 Professional Edition. I am
following these Steps.


1) Create New Document
2) Insert "Number of Pages" Field in the Header of Document
3) Typing some Random text in normal body of page 1 (2-3 lines only)
4) Enable Track Changes (Tools -> Track Changes)
5) Protect Document (tools -> Protect Document)
5b) I select the following options while protecting
- Limit formatting to a selection of styles
- Allow only this type of editing (No Changes (Read Only))
- I Keep 1 or 2 lines of body Text as Exception (so that i can

edit the document)
6) I start copy/pasting the random text to fill the pages
7) As Soon as i reach The 10th Page. The Header (where NumPages field
is) Start Populating with a weird number (some thing like
"111110101010110101... ")
8) Now When i Click "Stop Protection", the number Disappears.


I tested that on 3 different machines in 3 different organizations and
each one of them have the
same problem.
Any help in this regard is sincerely appreciated


With Thanks and regards
Hammad Bin Arif

 

[Cindy Meister]

Hi Hammad

FWIW, I tried the steps you give on my installation, and I don't see the
problem. I do have SP1 installed. If you don't, you should try that and see
if it makes a difference.

-- Cindy