Protection in 2003 - Problem Saving the Protection Mode

[dominic]

Hi,

I've gone through several posting in regards to "Protection in 2003"
but could not yet find the solution to my problem.

I have Office 2003 SP-2 and I've created a form document and want to
protect it allowing the user to fill the form fields only. I did that
without any problems. Of course, I have to exit Design Mode in order to
protect it.

My problem is:

When I save the document and close it then open it back, the protection
is kept BUT the design mode has been re-enabled by default somehow.
Which is not what I've protected since I cannot protect it without
exiting the Design Mode before.

So, in order for the user to fill the form, he/she must unprotect the
document then manually exit the Design Mode.

Any idea why this is happening? And does anyone has a workaround this
issue?

Thanks!

 

[Jay Freedman]

The solutions are (a) to sign the document with a digital certificate or (b)
ensure that all users have the macro security level set to Medium and click
the Enable Macros button in the security notice each time they open the form
or (c) get rid of all objects created from the Control Toolbox and use only
ones from the Forms toolbar.

The behavior of opening in Design Mode is the direct (and unavoidable)
result of having ActiveX (Control Toolbox) objects in a document and having
macro security set to High.

See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnword2k2/html/odc_activeX.asp.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[dominic]

Yes, I found that 5 minutes ago in another post and I was going to
quote the solution right here when I discovered that you are the same
that answered the other post...!

Thanks a lot it makes sense!