Form Fields and protection

[Hameedullah]

Hi,

I have a mail merge document in MS Word 2003 in which I use several form fields to be filled manually as well.

When a user opens the document (well, the system generates the document), they have to enable macros for the merge to work, once the data is retrieved from external source and the document is merged, then I use VBA to set the protection:

ActiveDocument.Protect Type:=wdAllowOnlyFormFields, NoReset:=True, Password:="My_PassWord"

Now the problem is that after this, the users are not able to edit the form fields, although I have used wdAllowOnlyFormFields.

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[fumei]

Got me stumped there. Something else must be going on because from the information in your post, users should be able to use the formfields.

faq219-2884

Gerry
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[macropod]

Hi Hameedullah,

Simple: Formfields are not compatible with mailmerge.

Perhaps a user form would be better suited to your needs. See:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/index.htm

Cheers


[MS MVP - Word]