Cannot Protect Document

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Steve

I've just upgraded from Office 97 to Office XP 2002. I have a service request form that I generated in 97 that is used throughout my department. The form has serveral check boxes and I am now trying to change the caption in one of them. In order to change the caption, I unprotect the document underTools, I view Toolbars - Visual Basic, go into Design Mode, and then right click on the check box that I want to change and view properties. I then change the caption and then close down the property box. When I go to Tools, the Protect Document is greyed out. What should I do?
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

If the document is a protected form, then the check boxes are from the Forms
toolbar. It sounds as if you are using the Control Toolbox instead. A
document containing ActiveX controls cannot be protected for forms.



Steve said:
I've just upgraded from Office 97 to Office XP 2002. I have a service
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request form that I generated in 97 that is used throughout my department.
The form has serveral check boxes and I am now trying to change the caption
in one of them. In order to change the caption, I unprotect the document
underTools, I view Toolbars - Visual Basic, go into Design Mode, and then
right click on the check box that I want to change and view properties. I
then change the caption and then close down the property box. When I go to
Tools, the Protect Document is greyed out. What should I do?
 
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Jay Freedman

Hi, Steve,

If you're using checkboxes from the Control Toolbox toolbar, which are the
ones you can alter in Design Mode, then you don't need to protect the
document to make them work. Document protection is needed for checkboxes
from the Forms toolbar, which are a different kind of control.

However, to make the Control Toolbox checkboxes work, you do have to turn
off Design Mode -- click the toolbar button again so it isn't "pushed in".
[BTW, I don't recall that this was any different in Word 97...]

The Tools > Protect Document menu item is disabled as a side effect of being
in Design Mode. When you turn off Design Mode, the item becomes enabled, and
you can -- but don't have to -- protect the document. This will prevent
editing of the text, but doesn't affect the checkboxes either way.
 
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