Unprotected Header in a Protected Document

[Tracy]

I am trying to create a document that is protected EXCEPT
for the header. I have not been successful with section
breaks, forms, protection, etc.

Any help anyone can provide would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you insert a Continuous section break at the top of the first page, then
protect Section 2, leaving Section 1 unprotected, does that work? I know the
opposite approach (protecting Section 1) is often recommended for keeping
people from changing a header.

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[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Tracy,

I am trying to create a document that is protected EXCEPT
for the header. I have not been successful with section
breaks, forms, protection, etc.

I'm fairly certain there is no way to do this, directly. Any
kind of protection you apply is going to lock out the
header/footer area...

I can think of a couple of workarounds, no idea if you'll be
able to use them, however.

1. The header can contain an IncludeText field that
references an outside file. The user can change the content
of this outside file (NOT the header/footer, it must be the
body of the document) and the IncludeText field (once it's
updated) will reflect it.

2. Similar to (1), but using VBA to transfer the content of
an(y) outside document into the header/footer of the
protected file.

3. Less secure, but VBA could also unprotect, put the user
in the header/footer, then reprotect when the user is
finished. This could get really complicated, because you'd
want to be sure the user can work ONLY in the header/footer
area. But theoretically it should be possible.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[Tracy]

Suzanne-

Thanks for your suggestion...however, this is one of the
things I tried....and it doesn't work. Once you protect
any portion of the document, you can't even open the
header/footer for modification.

Any other thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Travu