Enable Drawing Toolbar when document is protected

[General Plastic Design]

Does anyone know a way to enable the drawing toolbar when a word
document is protected with forms? I even thought about trying to
create a mock drawing toolbar to replace the original and just have it
unprotect the document while the user creates a line, but I have not
been able to find code to create a line, for example, in the same way
the line button works from the drawing toolbar. I found code to
create a line, but the endpoints are defined in the code and not by
the click locations of the user.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi General,

Does anyone know a way to enable the drawing toolbar when a word
document is protected with forms? I even thought about trying to
create a mock drawing toolbar to replace the original and just have it
unprotect the document while the user creates a line, but I have not
been able to find code to create a line, for example, in the same way
the line button works from the drawing toolbar. I found code to
create a line, but the endpoints are defined in the code and not by
the click locations of the user.

It is not possible to enable that toolbar when a document is protected
as a form. The only way you could get the "click point" would be to use
the Windows API.

The alternate approach would be to have the user create the drawing in
another Word document window (not in the form). Then you could enable
him to copy/paste into the form.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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