Impede creating font size

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Paul Martel

Hi everybody,

I'm wondering whether it's possible or not to do the following. In word
you can choose the font size (9-10-11-12-13-....-72) and you even can
customize it to 11.5-12.5-.....-72.5. Will it be possible to only let
people use the font size, without letting them the possiblity to
personalize it to ".5" values.
How can I do that --> give rights selection but no right edition.
I have also ADS, but the word11.adm does not offer this solution.
Any idea in word?

Thank you very much...
 
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Dave Lett

Hi Paul,

In theory, the answer is probably yes, you can do this. In practice,
however, the answer is probably no. That is, you could intercept the Word
built-in commands for controlling font size and thereby control what the user
could and couldn't do with the font size. However, there are several
different dialog boxes that give users control of the font size of their
styles (including the Format Style), so you would have to have a
comprehensive list of dialog box names in which the users could change the
font size and you'd have to overwrite Word's built-in routine for every one
of them. Then, you would need to divine a system to deliver the code to all
of the potential people who might be using your document, which isn't
horribly difficult. However, there are some restrictions (have a look at the
Word MVP site for what it takes to distribute your macros to end users at
http://word.mvps.org/).

So, in short, yeah, I think it's doable but probably not worth the effort.

HTH,
Dave
 
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