microsoft.public.word.vba.general

On Feb 29, 12:09 pm, "fumei via OfficeKB.com" wrote:
> You have a problem.
>
> PART of the problem is, frankly, education of your users. "unintentionally
> delete" is an issue I understand, but unfortunately, you can not have it both
> ways.

Yeah, they're of the triple-P type: "picky, petulant and powerful".

> If the document is "completely editable", then that means exactly that. They
> can.

Perhaps a poor choice of wording. What I mean is that I'd like the
text in the fields to be able to be manually edited, and the text of
the document to be manually edited.

> What you are asking for is that it is "completely editable".....except for
> some things.

Exactly

> In your example of fields: "my templates need to have four or five fields in
> close proximity.", I understand you do not wish line breaks where you do not
> want them. The issue there is do your users NEED to be able to edit BETWEEN
> those fields?

Probably not, but again with legal documents every little word can
sometimes be crucial. Based on your response, though, I'm starting to
think that the only way to do this properly is to protect chunks of
the document without a password and instruct the users to "unlock and
be careful" if they need to edit within those sections AND outside of
the fields. I foresee complaints, but as you point out, there are
some things that can't be done.

I very much appreciate the quick response. If there are other ideas
out there I'd love to hear them, but I think I see where this will all
end up.

Thanks!
Morgan