Protected - and no questions asked?

[Angyl]

I'm using Word 2003 and I've created a form that I want to lock/protect so no
one can make changes to it.

What I DON'T want is the resultant "This form is locked - enter password or
open read only" dialog that always opens up after I put a password in a
locked form.

I know this is possible. This WAS a locked form created by someone else,
and it didn't ask you ANYTHING when you opened it, only if you tried to
unlock it did it ask you for a password. How do I set that up, because I
don't want my users bothered by that stupid "Password/Read Only" dialog
everytime they go to open the form.

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?QW5neWw=?=,

I'm using Word 2003 and I've created a form that I want to lock/protect so no
one can make changes to it.

What I DON'T want is the resultant "This form is locked - enter password or
open read only" dialog that always opens up after I put a password in a
locked form.

I know this is possible. This WAS a locked form created by someone else,
and it didn't ask you ANYTHING when you opened it, only if you tried to
unlock it did it ask you for a password. How do I set that up, because I
don't want my users bothered by that stupid "Password/Read Only" dialog
everytime they go to open the form.

There are various kinds of protection. If you enter a password in
Tools/Options/Security you'll get a prompt when the document is opened. There's
no way to suppress that.

Protection as a form is done through the Tools/Protect Document interface (task
pane). You can also enter a password when activating that protection. The prompt
for this password then only appears when the user tries to remove that
protection.

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

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