What are locked fields?

[Aaron Bratcher]

I have a merge document. When I go to do the merge, it says it found a
locked field and cannot update locked fields.

How can I find what field is locked?

 

[Aaron Bratcher]

tell application "Microsoft Word"
tell active document
set L to get every field whose locked is true
repeat with f in L
set locked of f to false
end repeat
end tell
end tell

m.

Hey Matt. Fancy seeing you on this list.

I appreciate the script. Originally it didn't fix my problem. After some
playing, I discovered my locked field was in the footer. So after
cutting everything from the footer and putting it into a fresh document,
your script worked.

Thanks.